In March 2023, Guinness World Records designated that refurbished crawler, known as CT-2, as the heaviest self-powered vehicle. The crawler itself weighs 6.6 million pounds, about the same as 1,000 ...

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket off the launch pad on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to deal with a glitch, and you can watch the long trek live.

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them—using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, the 4,671st Martian day (sol) of the ...

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

Since at least the early 2000s, Elon Musk has been obsessed with the idea of colonizing Mars, a hostile and arid planet tens of millions of miles away. In its earliest iteration, his plan was to ...

Mars had been SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s long-standing focus. A year ago, he wrote on X: "The Moon is a distraction.” ...

Elon Musk has long had a passion for Mars. The moon? It's a diversion. But that plan has now shifted. SpaceX will “prioritize going to the moon first,” said The Wall Street Journal. Just last year, ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus” from taking humans to Mars to building a “self-growing city on the Moon,” something he said could be achievable in less than ...

SpaceX has shifted its primary focus from colonizing Mars to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon, a reversal of Elon Musk's long-held priorities. Musk justified the change by noting that a ...

While most Americans were transfixed by this year’s Super Bowl proceedings on Sunday night, Elon Musk took to X to proclaim that SpaceX would focus on building out a base on the moon before sending ...