Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...

NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

According to NASA, the rover’s landing was the most challenging touchdown on Mars that’s been attempted by the agency. Right before the landing, NASA engineers were on pins and needles as the rover ...

The flying saucers of science fiction movies might be the shape of things to come for future Mars missions that are expected to involve larger payloads that today's landing vehicles are not equipped ...

Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Two NASA Mars orbiters will be ready and waiting to send home news of the Curiosity rover's landing attempt Sunday night (Aug. 5) — and one may even snap a photo of the daredevil ...

The first Mars photos from NASA's Curiosity rover prompt a huge celebration by the rover's mission support team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., just minutes after the rover's ...

The highly anticipated landing of NASA's sophisticated $2.5 billion rover on Mars will be broadcast on a large screen in New York City's Times Square, NASA said on Tuesday. (Phys.org) -- NASA has ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...