When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A pair of new studies presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the ...

On04, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to ...

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 ...

The head of the NASA team in charge of the entry, descent and landing of Curiosity, shares what he learned. Management Lessons From The Mars Rover Landing NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Adam ...

LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - The British arm of Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the landing platform for the ...

Landing on Mars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Landing on Mars in HD. NASA, aka the BuzzFeed of Government, tweeted out a new video Thursday capturing the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity. The 3 ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...