When NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere and settled into Jezero Crater, it did more than stick a precision landing. For the first time, a robot on another world ...
3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...
On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to ...
NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.
Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...
Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Over the years, the rover ...
A new study may have revealed the true source behind how the Red Planet got its hue. It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet ...