British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

Airbus will provide the landing platform for Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch toward Mars in 2028.

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

NASA plans 45-day campaign to get its Mars rover Opportunity back. Mars rover Opportunity has been out of contact since early June, ever since a major dust storm deprived it of so ...

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 ...

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A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

The new contract, awarded by the European Space Agency and funded by the government through the UK Space Agency, will support ...

Airbus UK has been awarded £150m to complete the touchdown system for the Rosalind Franklin rover, the first European made ...

A British-built Mars rover stuck on Earth since the start of the war in Ukraine may soon be on its way after the UK Space Agency agreed to pay for its ride down to the Red Planet.

A UK aerospace company is set to land the first European rover on the red planet, as it wins £150 million to complete the ...

Martian dust contains hazardous substances like silica, perchlorates, nanophase iron oxides and toxic metals, which can cause ...