What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for finding life beyond Earth? This is what a ...

Sometimes, boring is best — and that's certainly true when you're trying to set a lander down on the surface of Mars, where any eventfulness is likely bad news. That's why scientists carefully chose a ...

Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern mid latitudes, flat and .

LOS ANGELES — After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices. Scientists in the close-knit Mars ...