India's next Mars mission, will launch in 2030. Unlike the first Mangalyaan, this ambitious mission will include an orbiter, ...

NASA’s InSight lander has been on its way to Mars since May. Now, after six months in flight and crossing 301 million miles (485 million kilometers), InSight is set to touch down on the Red Planet’s ...

When NASA prepared to land a rover on Mars, engineers turned to a design that looked more like a toy than a spacecraft.

“It’s a chance for families, students and anyone curious about the cosmos to get an up-close experience of Mars that is both visually stunning and intellectually enriching,” she said. “My Mars” is ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, October 19, an experimental Mars lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) is going to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet, a practice mission to prepare for a rover ...

Filmmakers have been cleaning up the video of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory’s landing on Mars last month. Slate explains: In the weeks since we first saw the both dazzling and ...

They initially kept the Mars 3 landing a secret. And for almost 40 years, the mystery of what happened to the spacecraft ...