"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...

Scientists solve a 15-year Mars mystery, confirming ferric hydroxysulfate formed by volcanic and hydrothermal heating across ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon ...

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System ( CaSSIS) aboard the Trace ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...