On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more ...

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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 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun testing drones for Mars exploration. In a desert with an environment similar to Mars, it flew drones with both rotors and fixed wings ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander, which made history by finding definitive proof of water on the Red Planet, has lost contact with Earth, effectively ending its more than five-month mission, NASA said on ...

Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read ...

The realm of space exploration has consistently fascinated humanity, from the early days of satellite launches to the manned Apollo missions and now to the frontier of Mars and beyond. Recent ...