When Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit rocket failed on its maiden launch from Cornwall in 2023, it brought Britain’s space ...

It's been announced that a space rover built in the UK will be the first ever European space rover to land on Mars. Made by Airbus ... for signs of ancient life. Image source, Airbus Scientist ...

As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have ...

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

On March 15, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, announced on X that an uncrewed Mars landing mission will take ... The successful deployment of reusable Falcon 9 rocket boosters and the development ...

The Rosalind Frank rover is due to launch in 2028 aboard a rocket organised by Nasa, and land on Mars in 2030. Ground-level operators plan to land the pricey bit of kit at Oxia Planum - a 200km ...

A British-built Mars rover that has been stranded on Earth since Russia's invasion of Ukraine may soon be heading to the Red ...

The largest organic molecules ever found on Mars have now been identified by scientists. The compounds, discovered in ancient rocks, could be evidence of past life. They show that there were ...

This striking similarity meant scientists flocked to study its shores before the Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021. Lake Salda is one of Turkey's deepest lakes, with a maximum depth of 643 ...