A spectacular new video shows the Mars rover Curiosity's harrowing Red Planet landing in sharp detail, while another captures the drama and excitement surrounding the historic Aug. 5 event. The first ...

MYSTERY WIRE — NASA says its Mars rover is headed for a “bullseye” landing at Jezero Crater when it arrives on Thursday. Perseverance is aiming for an ancient river delta that seems a logical spot for ...

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 ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

NASA has successfully moved one of its Mars-orbiting spacecraft into a new position to provide prompt confirmation of the upcoming Aug. 5 landing of the new Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Admit it: when the Curiosity rover sent back the first pictures from Mars, you were hoping it looked like a scene from Britney Spears’ Mars-themed video “Oops ...

The highly anticipated landing of NASA's sophisticated $2.5 billion rover on Mars will be broadcast on a large screen in New York City's Times Square, NASA said on Tuesday. (Phys.org) -- NASA has ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...