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

Optics and photonics industry players gathered in Washington, DC, on 18 September for the fourth annual SPIE Photonics Industry Summit. With more than one hundred industry leaders in attendance, the ...

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

Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday. A winter with little snow, ...

The galaxy, also known as M31, can be seen with the naked eye but appears more spectacular from areas with minimal light ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

Ross Elder will lead a year-long mission in Houston, which will test him and his team in Martian-like conditions.