Microsoft will offer Xbox 360 owners a way to check out the "live" streaming video from the scheduled landing of the Mars rover Curiosity on Monday via a special Xbox Live dashboard. More...

Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the... More...

Single workstation controls destiny of space probe The control centre is ready and a big Christmas celebration is expected when, or if, the UK's most ambitious scientific project, the Beagle 2 Mars... More...

Space scientists have chosen two sites on Mars where twin robot vehicles will look for evidence that a warmer, wetter red planet might once have harbored life. Two spacecraft carrying the rovers will be launched... More...