Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

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 ...

A view from the Mars Exploration Rover from when it set a one-day distance record for Martian driving, in 2005 (via Panoramic Camera, NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 3D images make up just a small part of the ...

Wringing out clues that could change everything.

Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World Economic forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. They spoke about everything from ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Think self-driving cars are impressive? Try a self-driving rover on a planet over a hundred million miles away. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Mars Perseverance rover had pulled off a stunning ...

give the Mars robot projects an Apollo-scale budget (or even a substantial fraction thereof) and I ‘ll bet it would be astonishing what they could accomplish. The mission advantages of not having to ...

Scientists are using robots to explore underground lava tunnels, offering a safer way to prepare for future human missions in ...