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 ...

FUTURE space colonists could live inside giant 3D-printed homes on the Moon and Mars – and we might already know what they’ll look like. A Nasa Centennial Challenge tasked star-gazing ...

Conceptual image of the Iris rover, a student-built robot included in Astrobotic’s inaugural Peregrine mission. Image: Carnegie Mellon University Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is slated to blast ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

The team explained that the system is a 3D terrestrial, self-reconfigurable robotic swarm made up of compact, dome-shaped ...