Only the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2 hard landers (two components of the same mission) crash-landed on the Red Planet in 1999 due to improper hardware testing. Despite that failure (and a ...

NASA’s Insight lander spent four years on the surface of Mars, uncovering secrets of the planet’s interior, but it eventually succumbed to the most martian of environmental threats ...

"NASA is looking forward to partnering with U.S. industry to meet the challenges of performing volatiles science in the lunar ...

Prior to this week, liquid water on Mars’ surface had only been observed for very brief periods of time. Briny water droplets were briefly observed on NASA’s Phoenix Polar Lander and orbital ...