In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 safely touched down on March 2 within the targeted Mare Crisium landing zone.

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a rare and dynamic interaction on Mars: a large dust devil overtaking a smaller one near Jezero Crater. While it might sound like a small atmospheric quirk, ...

The second Mars mission will include a lander and a mini helicopter that will liftoff aboard the LVM3 rocket. Weighing 4,500 kg, the lander will be placed in an elliptical Earth orbit (190X35,786 km) ...

There will be two such ramps, installed on opposite sides of the lander, giving the rover the chance to choose the least risky route. Franklin's arrival on Mars will go a bit like this ...

Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars In 1973, while the world watched the Apollo missions end, something extraordinary happened in the Amazon jungle. A rocket carried humanity's ...

"But if I decide to wait until the next time that Mars and Earth are close to minimize that, that's two years later." Any eventual manned journey to Mars must include massive amounts of food or ...

The Japanese space agency JAXA is studying use of inflatable aeroshells to enable landings of small Mars rovers ... Phobos with those from the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft ...

Airbus UK has won a new contract, awarded through the European Space Agency (ESA), to engineer the landing system that will deliver Europe’s first rover on to Mars. Specifically, after entry and ...