As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

Airbus Defence and Space has replaced a Russian corporation in a European project to search for signs of life on Mars. Scientists at its site in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, will work on the ExoMars ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would have require chemistry to reach a more advanced state to be produced. The ...

After the invasion of Ukraine, ESA cancelled the contract, leaving the Rosalind rover, designed to search for signs of past life on Mars, stranded. The £150m contract from the UK Space Agency for ...