To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars ...

After Russia drama and NASA's on-again-off-again romance, rover shows it still has legs... four of them The European Space ...

P A S A D E N A, Calif., Feb. 17 -- A flaw in the design of NASA’s MarsPolar Lander could have caused its engines to cut off prematurelywhile the $165 million spacecraft was descending to the ...

Key market opportunities in the Mars entry, descent, and landing (EDL) system include crewed Mars landing systems, precision ...

Jan. 6 -- The project scientist for the missing Mars Polar Lander mission called published reports that the lander probably tumbled down into a canyon “way premature.” Members of the Lockheed Martin ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just seconds before silence. The lander managed to transmit a fragmentary image ...

Talking to planetary scientists can be like walking into a foreign country and not speaking the language. Here's a guide to some of the terms that scientists on the Phoenix mission use: EDL: Entry, ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings ...

In a bold new proposal for exploring the Red Planet, aerospace firm AeroVironment has unveiled “Skyfall,” a mission concept that would ditch the traditional rover and lander in favor of a swarm of six ...