Finding the whereabouts of NASA’s Mars Polar Lander might offer some clues about its true fate. But there is a good scientific reason to spot the wreckage as well – a motive tied to life on ...

Blue Origin has been mum about the payload that will fly on this rocket, but multiple people have told Ars that the current ...

Nearly six years after NASA's Mars Polar Lander (search) vanished during a landing attempt on the Red Planet, a scientist said he has spotted what appears to be wreckage of the spacecraft.

After the Mars ’98 failures, NASA canceled plans to launch a lander in 2001, but continued work on an orbiter, dubbed Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001 and currently is orbiting the Red Planet.

NASA’s InSight Mars lander, seen inside its spacecraft's backshell on April 6, 2018 as it was being prepared for launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com) ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

It all begins with launch from pad 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles at 4:05 a.m. PDT (GMT-7; 7:05 a.m. EDT) Saturday, two years late because of a problem with the ...

A robotic probe designed to touch and analyze Martian water for the first time is being prepared for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials said Tuesday.

When it comes to missions to Mars, NASA has been on a winning streak in recent decades. Its Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity, InSight, and Perseverance missions have all landed successfully ...

According to AP, the total cost of the collective mission including development and operations for both the Mars Polar Lander and the accompanying Deep Space 2 was $194.6 million in 1999.

The all-private mission aims to launch a Mars-bound spacecraft and lander atop a 3D-printed rocket which could launch to the Red Planet as soon as 2024.

The Perseverance rover is collecting samples on Mars and scouting locations where future missions can land – and launch from – the red planet, to return precious Martian samples to Earth for ...