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 ...

No Mars-landing operation has ever been captured on camera before. ... starting as the capsule carrying Perseverance deployed a 70-foot-wide parachute as it fell toward Mars at about 12,000 mph.

LOS ANGELES – When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set … ...

The second problem is Mars’ atmosphere. There is both too much and too little. On Earth, when astronauts and sample capsules return from space, we can protect spacecraft behind heat shields and ...

Despite having bridged a gap of nearly 300 million miles between Earth and Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover still has its most perilous moments ahead.

NASA's next Mars rover is nearing the end of its roughly six-and-a-half month journey to the Red Planet. Here’s how the spacecraft will land inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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 ...

But after the moon it’s still a very long way to Mars, filled with unknowns, and then once you get to Mars, landing is a whole new challenge. This is where NASA’s plans get particularly vague.