Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day.

Tesla's Optimus robots will be used to explore the surface of Mars, Elon Musk confirmed today. The humanoid robots, which were initially pitched as household assistants in October last year, will ...

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 ...

New mission concepts suggest that Tesla’s humanoid robot could become a key asset in SpaceX’s early Mars operations. The bot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Perseverance rover was exploring the winds on a Martian crater when this sound got recorded in its SuperCam microphone.

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...