NASA has released a cinematic animation showing some of the key moments from the upcoming Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came in for a landing on the red planet at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday, late Sunday evening at NASA's mission control in California.

Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) teams for three Mars rover missions, he said the prospect of landing a human mission on the Red Planet might be impossible.

NASA has named the landing site of Mars’ Perseverance rover “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler.

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

A commercial landing on Mars will have to wait a little longer as two private space companies updated their plan to touchdown on the Red Planet, delaying it by two years for reasons not made ...