Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the ...

Private group wants to launch “cheapest possible” mission to Alpha Centauri

Johnston is in the midst of scaling up Starcloud, working through technical issues, and raising hundreds of millions of ...

The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer’s indulgence

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Supersports, ...

Topic: Bentley Supersports

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy ...

It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well

Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. The ablative ...