Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer’s day. The source of these shocks ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced Friday that the company's massive Starship rocket is set to depart for Mars at the end of 2026, carrying Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. In a post on X, he added ...

Rick Chappell, director of Science and Research Communications, director of the Dyer Observatory, and former associate director for science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville can ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

TL;DR: SpaceX plans to launch a humanoid robot to Mars next year, with the goal of landing humans on the planet by 2029 at the earliest, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX is nearing its goal ...

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 ...

After about five months of collecting information on whether Mars can sustain life, NASA scientists have started to shut down heaters, scientific instruments and even the robotic arm onboard the ...

Recently, the rover has discovered that Mars' atmosphere is electrically active, because it found electrical discharges. The ...