Successful entry, descent and landing on Mars by Perseverance rover sparked euphoria at JPL's mission control. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) Kink in the curve.

The largest payload to land on Mars so far is the Perseverance rover, which has a mass of about 1 metric ton. Successfully landing Perseverance and its predecessor Curiosity required a complicated ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Researchers at the University of Mississippi have identified a potential landing site on Mars, which is rich in sunlight and surface ice.

What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for f | Space ...

Before they take the long journey to another planet, humans will have to find the right place to land. New findings from a ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which is currently roaming Mars looking for signs of life, recently captured an intriguing picture, ...

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

With crewed missions to the Red Planet becoming a realistic possibility for the 2030s, researchers have begun the search for an ideal Mars  landing site.

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that ...