If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last week. Casani served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep ...

Intuitive Machines got its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads, but tipped over similar to its Odysseus lander in 2024.

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter ...

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only ...

January 3, 2004 - At approximately 11:35pm ET, Spirit lands on Mars and immediately starts to send back pictures from the surface. January 15, 2004 - The Mars rover Spirit rolls off its lander and ...

Just over two months later, the Mars Polar Lander vanished as it was landing. An investigation found that its engines had most likely shut off too early, causing it to plummet to its destruction.

Mars Polar Lander Mission NASA scientists talked with reporters about the status of the Mars Polar Lander mission. They reported that after four days t… November 30, 1999 ...