Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look skyward, where a new lunar contest mirrors humanity’s struggle to live within plane ...

Trump and Congress both support returning to the moon. A vibrant commercial space sector and a coalition of international ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Why is ‘Mars’ trending on Google Trends today, December 25? Yes, the planet is all that everything is talking about– what ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

The advantages of space-based AI include access to power 24/7 using solar panels. AI data centers on Earth are energy hogs, ...

Yesterday, with a single slam of a gavel, Elon Musk got almost 14 percent closer to being a trillionaire.