When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

"The first human landing on Mars will be the most significant moment for human space exploration since we first set foot on ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the ...

The search for past or present life on Mars should be the top priority for the first human mission to the Red Planet, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

Opportunity and Spirit survive "six minutes of terror." “Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists may have just captured evidence of lighting on Mars for the first time.The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The giant New Glenn rocket from billionaire Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on ...

AeroVironment and JPL propose "Skyfall," a Mars mission concept utilizing a swarm of six autonomous helicopters instead of traditional landers, significantly reducing mission cost and complexity. The ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...