In 1971, the Soviet Union achieved the first soft landing on Mars with Mars 3, then lost contact just seconds after a single, eerie transmission. Decades later, new high-resolution orbital imagery and ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...

BEIJING (AP) - China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday in the latest advance for its space program, state media said. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few ...

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 ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered the most promising landing site for humans, aiming to prepare for the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

You’ve probably already seen the trailer. It’s gotten 800,000 YouTube hits, it’s been shown on most major broadcast and cable news shows and its name — “Seven Minutes of Terror” — has become something ...

Opportunity and Spirit survive "six minutes of terror." “Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise ...