Europe’s next Mars rover has successfully rehearsed one of the riskiest moments of its mission: leaving its landing platform without becoming trapped. According to the European Space Agency’s October 12 report,

NASA's car-size Curiosity rover is days away from its high-stakes landing on Mars, and a host of planned events will allow people to follow along as the spacecraft makes its thrilling journey to the surface of the Red Planet. After traveling through space ...

A pair of new studies presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS) suggest the European Space Agency's (ESA) upcoming Mars rover mission, Rosalind Franklin, may have better odds of ...

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 descent. Wheels down in less than a minute.# ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s newest rover, the massive Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, is less than two months away from plunging into the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet — a harrowing seven-minute dive that will use a landing never-before attempted ...