The Latest Breaking News from Mars

The European Space Agency says the launch this year of a joint mission with Russia to Mars is now “very unlikely” due to sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine

Elon Musk said Saturday his company SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service had been activated in Ukraine, after a Kyiv official urged the tech titan to provide his embattled country with stations. "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine," Musk tweeted, adding "more terminals en route." The tweet came some 10…

Eagle-eyed internet users spotted a cylinder-shaped piece of debris in one of the photos taken by Nasa's Perseverance rover - and it was all systems go to discuss what it could be

A Christie's auction of rare meteorites Wednesday sold a rock from space that narrowly missed a German Shepherd when it smashed into his kennel in Costa Rica. But the offer of the third-largest piece of Mars on Earth failed to make an impact at the auction house's annual sale of…

In this edition of Inverse Daily, read about the Canadian doctors prescribing the outdoors as treatment, frozen carbon dioxide clouds over Mars, and more.

Humankind shares with all animals our innate impulse to survive and procreate. But few characteristics distinguish us more from the rest of creation than our powerful desire to explore, to discover, to understand and to explain. Descartes could have as easily said, “I explore, therefore I am.”

Usually twinkling in summer months, the ‘rival of Mars’ will appear clearer in still winter air

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a year, and has accomplished some major feats during that year.

NASA scientists have identified a previously undiscovered species of bacterium thriving 250 miles above our heads on the International Space Station – and it could help us live on Mars