This is the extinction-level event we were warning people about,” said Casey Dreier, the chief of space policy at The ...

European Space Agency isn’t ruling out the cancellation or freezing of some space exploration programmes if budget cuts to ...

Lab in the Hertfordshire town built by aerospace firm Airbus has been built to be an exact replica of what the Red Planet is ...

Airbus will provide the landing platform for Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch toward Mars in 2028. Europe's life-hunting Mars rover just got a new ride to the Red Planet's surface.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover is back on course for a landmark trip to Mars, where it will probe the red planet for signs of extraterrestrial life. ESA initially ...

The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover was supposed to land on Mars in 2023. But the rocket powered system designed to ferry the fragile rover down to the planet's surface was being ...

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. The European Space ...

It's been announced that a space rover built in the UK will be the first ever European space rover to land on Mars. Made by Airbus UK, the Rosalind Franklin rover will be sent into space as part ...

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Students tested the rovers in a simulated Mars environment meant to emulate what the ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover will endure when it launches to the Red Planet in 2028. University ...

[Related: Rosalind Franklin missed out on a Nobel, but now she’ll help look for life on Mars.] Once it reaches Mars, the RHUs will help heat equipment within the rover’s landing platform that ...

An artist’s impression of the Rosalind Franklin rover on Mars. ESA/Mlabspace Europe’s unlucky Mars rover, known as Rosalind Franklin, has gotten a boost thanks to a new cooperation agreement ...