SpaceX is quietly reshaping its Mars strategy around a new kind of astronaut: a Tesla-built humanoid that can work where humans cannot yet safely live. The company wants Optimus, Tesla’s bipedal robot ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing the air, carving out shelter and assembling the hardware that keeps people ...

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being ...

Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World Economic forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. They spoke about everything from ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

give the Mars robot projects an Apollo-scale budget (or even a substantial fraction thereof) and I ‘ll bet it would be astonishing what they could accomplish. The mission advantages of not having to ...

We are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots are the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises. So we should be thankful ...

Scientists are using robots to explore underground lava tunnels, offering a safer way to prepare for future human missions in space.