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 ...

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 ...

According to NASA, the rover’s landing was the most challenging touchdown on Mars that’s been attempted by the agency. Right before the landing, NASA engineers were on pins and needles as the rover ...