So why is NASA deciding which rocket will launch a flagship European Mars mission? It’s a long story involving the search for ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. There's a reason Jezero ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) — A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could ...

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces.

How do you get people excited about a Mars rover that will attempt to land on the Red Planet in five days? You enlist the help of "Star Trek" icons Captain James T. Kirk and Wesley Crusher. Actors ...