To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

On Sunday evening in Pasadena — Monday morning in Times Square — a scientific laboratory is schedule to land on the surface of Mars.With Mars roughly 154 million miles away, the landing can't be ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Once on Mars, the half dozen rotorcraft would act in concert as they explore the region around the landing site using cameras and subsurface radar scanners. Aside from general information, the goal ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic look at the rugged Martian landscape it's been exploring for more than a ...