New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

NASA's $850 million InSight Lander is the first designed to study the interior structure of Mars. Until now, NASA's landers mainly focused on exploring Mars' surface for signs of potential life.

Pathfinder’s lander suffered what is being written up today as the first bug on Mars. When the lander collected Martian weather data, its computer would crash. Like many other spacecraft ...

The orbiter has taken annual photos of InSight since December 2018, when the lander first arrived on Mars. Its first picture depicts a bright, fuzzy dot at the center of a dark halo—the result ...

It will be China’s first Mars orbiter, lander and rover. An ambitious mission, it will deploy an orbiter around Mars between February 11-24, 2021, and put a rover on the surface on April 23 ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s ... and Landing Capability on Mars," as first reported by European Spaceflight.

At National Geographic, exploration of new frontiers is in our DNA. As far as Mars goes, we’ve already launched—and landed. This month: Everything about sending astronauts to Mars is hard ...