The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

The “Skyfall maneuver” is the core innovation of the Skyfall mission. Instead of relying on a standard, costly, and complex ...

NASA's troubled efforts to get prized Martian samples to Earth could get a lifeline, if a new proposal for a more cost-effective mission architecture gets the ... development Starship megarocket.

Just landing successfully on Mars is a feat, but the Curiosity mission went several steps further on Aug. 5, 2012, touching down with a bold new technique: the sky crane maneuver.

Mars Landing and Operations Efficient Design: The Starboat needs five times less propellant than the Starship for landing on Mars and returning to orbit. For comparison, refueling the Starship on Mars ...

Mars' thin atmosphere—about 100 times less dense than Earth's—won't support a parachute landing for such a large craft. "With a conventional vehicle, we fly through a very clean, predictable ...

McQueeney jokingly boasts that IBM has “100% market share on Mars,” with Power Architecture processors running inside satellites orbiting the Red Planet as well as the Spirit and Opportunity ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came in for a landing on the red planet at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday, late Sunday evening at NASA's mission control in California.

At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars. To mark the 12th anniversary, NASA has shared a video (below) in which members of the ...