WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030. It is a landmark feat for the UK, and will be the first ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

Elon Musk has always dreamed of colonizing Mars, but his latest plan raises an intriguing question—will a robot get there before humans?The SpaceX founder announced that his massive Starship rocket ...

Samples obtained by the rover could be up to 4billion years old. The Mars-bound robot, dubbed the Rosalind Frank rover, has cost roughly £1billion from start to finish. It gets its name from ...

Elon Musk has announced plans to send a Starship rocket to Mars in 2026, carrying Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot on board.

Elon Musk's ambitious Mars mission faces technical, logistical, and political challenges, raising doubts about its ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to ...