Airbus Defence and Space has replaced a Russian corporation in a European project to search for signs of life on Mars.

Europe's life-hunting Mars rover just got a new ride to the Red Planet's surface ... Chief among those parameters were the launch vehicle, originally a Russian Proton rocket, and the landing platform, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) selected Airbus to make the lander for the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2028 ...

a Russian craft named Kazachok. Both are now out of the picture. Related: Europe will issue new ExoMars lander contract in a few months for beleaguered Mars rover (exclusive) Airbus teams in the ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil devouring a smaller storm swirling close behind it on the rim of Jezero Crater. Martian dust devils are spinning columns of warm air that ...

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars.

Russian state space agency Roscosmos had ... "Getting the Rosalind Franklin rover onto the surface of Mars is a huge international challenge and the culmination of more than 20 years' work.

A NASA rover recently spotted a rare phenomenon of a dust devil consuming a smaller one on Mars. The footage was captured by ...

British-built Mars rover stuck on Earth could soon be on its way to the Red Planet The £150m contract from the UK Space Agency for Airbus to replace the Russian landing system puts the mission ...

The contract was later reassigned to Airbus UK, which built the gadget from its base in Stevenage and replaced all the Russian-built components. The last country to send a rover to Mars was the US ...