There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars ...

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 ...

NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month voyage from Earth. "Touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If humans are ever to land on Mars, they will need somewhere to stay—a protective shell that can shield them from the sun’s harsh ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

(CBS News/CBS Local)-- Was there ever life on Mars? Maybe. Is there sound? Definitely. On Friday, NASA released audio of the Martian wind, the first time sound has been recorded on another planet's ...

NASA successfully tested an inflatable heat shield prototype Monday (July 23), a technology that could one day be used for future space exploration missions, including landing humans on Mars, its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA is scheduled to land its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars today (Feb. 18) ...