SpaceX is quietly reshaping its Mars strategy around a new kind of astronaut: a Tesla-built humanoid that can work where ...

Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced Friday that the company's massive Starship rocket is set to depart for Mars at the end of 2026, carrying Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. In a post on X, he added ...

TL;DR: SpaceX plans to launch a humanoid robot to Mars next year, with the goal of landing humans on the planet by 2029 at the earliest, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX is nearing its goal ...

Will autonomous androids built by Elon Musk take over Mars, like he’s promised? Not according to a leading robotics expert. In an interview with Forbes, Christian Hubicki, head of the Optimal Robotics ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

LOS ANGELES — Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet’s north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The ...

An enormous canyon stretches across Mars: Valles Marineris is 3,000 kilometers long, 600 kilometers wide and on average 8 kilometers deep. Its Latin name goes back to the Mars orbiter Mariner, which ...

In 2034, the first person landed on Mars. While she didn’t go there physically, she still experienced the planet intimately. She explored an ancient river delta and built a base. She put up a flag ...