China is about to attempt its first Mars landing — a feat accomplished successfully by only half the spacecraft that have ever tried. Tianwen-1, as the mission is called, means "questions to ...

SpaceX will not fully develop the landing technique it was going to use to land the Dragon on Mars. Known as the Red Dragon mission, the capsule was meant to lower itself to solid ground using ...

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...

Then it’s a case of retrieving the capsule, extracting the samples, and sending them to the lab, giving scientists their first close look at a decent range of Mars material.

Lozano and his students worked with Briere to test out the technical dynamics of a Mars landing. "But with the explosion of CubeSat and other small mission technology, I think this is now entirely ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, so it's the perfect time to rewatch some of the most amazing footage of the spacecraft landing.

But Mars 2020 is people-free, and the landing must unfurl without help from Mission Control, because there’s more than a 10-minute communications lag with Earth.