A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong ...

Mars just threw us another curveball. NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a surprising rock formation. On the lower ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

In most photos, the surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ...

"The fact that fragile linear molecules are still present at Mars' surface 3.7 billion years after their formation allows us to make a new statement: If life ever appeared on Mars billions of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

With as many as five active missions – including two surface rovers: Perseverance and Curiosity – to explore and learn more about Mars, the aspect of human exploration remains NASA’s goal. Musk isn’t ...

When asked about the possible timeline for humankind’s first steps on Mars, Mr Musk said, “I think the soonest would be (20)29”. He said it would take another decade and a half to make the ...

The objective is to deliver a version of Starship that NASA will use as part of its Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon’s surface ... beyond the moon to Mars.

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and ... researchers created Global Renewables Watch, which maps all onshore wind and every large-scale ...

NASA aims to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s; flights which, there and back, could take 21 months. "The extreme environment of space, the radiation, the lack of gravity, even just ...