Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Though initially drawn to art, science fairs became her focus by her freshman year of high school. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Gaiser built a Mars simulation apparatus in her garage. "It was kinda a ...

Speaker after speaker – faculty, foundation directors, lab heads, faculty, postdocs, graduate students, New York State politicians – ticked off what was being lost by the budget cuts targeting science ...

Founded by Dr. Mukesh Bangar, the company is working on advanced robots like Spaceo Prime, a conscious bipedal humanoid robot, and Robo Prime for Mars missions. Listen to Story Muks Robotics, a ...

For about ten glorious minutes, things were looking good. The Super Heavy booster nailed its landing like an Olympic gymnast, sliding perfectly into its docking arms (aka the ‘chopsticks’).

A breakthrough discovery has found that Mars may have once been warm, wet, and able to support life. NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring the Red Planet since 2021, but recently spotted ...

On February 3, 2021, a rock from space slammed into Mars, carving a 21-meter-wide crater and sending seismic waves rippling across the planet. These waves traveled exactly 1,640 kilometers before ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that turns out to be a revelation.

"We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond," Trump told Congress during ...

The rover used its Left Navigation Camera (Navcam), one of a pair of stereo cameras on either side of the rover's masthead, to record the image on Feb. 28, 2025, on sol 4466, or Martian day 4,466 of ...

Building on a previous study that supported the ancient philosopher Plato’s conjecture—that Earth is mostly made from cubes—geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack of the University of Pennsylvania teamed up ...