Life is out there, and we must find it,” has been the approach taken by astrobiology since the birth of NASA’s Exobiology Program in 1960. But what if we said, “Life, as we know it, is here. We can ...

The contest between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is only going to get more heated now that the two are directly competing for the ...

From vanished oceans to the modern race to return Martian samples to Earth, Zhurong’s groundbreaking findings highlight the Red Planet’s hidden history. Scientists are piecing together evidence of ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk just said the company is stepping back from its previously touted plan to send humans to Mars in the near term in favor of building a permanent settlement on the Moon. ...

Researchers argue that the presence of long chain carbon molecules on Mars "cannot be readily explained" by non-biological processes alone.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Elon Musk shifts SpaceX’s focus from Mars to building a self-growing city on the moon, citing speed, strategy, and rising competition from China.

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

It is a jarring plot twist from January 2025, when Musk dismissed the moon as a “ distraction .” Now, he says, the natural satellite is the “overriding priority” to secure civilization. Musk argues a ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has taken a drive around Mars that was entirely mapped out by Generative AI with no input from humans.

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both ...

In Musk’s telling, the step beyond data centers orbiting Earth is even larger computers in deep space. And furthermore, Musk ...