Scientists still don’t quite understand what natural phenomenon caused this grid-like pattern to form at Mars’ south pole.
NASA shows how Mars helicopter did the impossible, and then crashed
NASA created a map showing the historic path of its Mars Ingenuity helicopter, which flew over 70 times before crashing into the Martian desert.
Wordle today: The answer and hints for April 23
Here’s the answer for “Wordle” #1039 on April 23, as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.
TechCrunch Space: Engineering the future
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Don’t worry — we’ll be diving into the Mars Sample Return news shortly. Want to reach out with a tip? Email […]
Exclusive: General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide
Plenty of products benefit from tight integration, where companies design and sometimes build key components of a product in-house: Apple and its custom microprocessors and Tesla and its […]
The farthest-away pictures of Earth ever taken
NASA spacecraft have captured a number of distant images of Earth, including a famous shot from billions of miles away. Here’s our humble planet seen from deep space.
Boston Dynamics unveils a new robot, controversy over MKBHD, and layoffs at Tesla
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s weekly news recap. The weather’s getting hotter — but not quite as hot as the generative AI space, which saw […]
Watch: NASA needs your help to bring rocks back from Mars
NASA’s decision to scrap its $11 billion, 15-year mission to Mars to bring back samples could create a startup feeding frenzy, TechCrunch reports. Describing its plans as too […]
Andreessen Horowitz’s $7.2B new funds for a ‘new era’
What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost $11 billion […]
Space startups are licking their lips after NASA converts $11B Mars mission into a free-for-all
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has pronounced the agency’s $11 billion, 15-year mission to collect and return samples from Mars… insufficient. But the strategy shift could be a huge […]