The new technology - dubbed the Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology - stores like a folded umbrella inside smaller rockets.
15 Sep 2018 8:48 AM
Mars has some of the tallest mountains in the solar system.
31 Aug 2018 12:12 PM
Reducing the exposure to zero gravity and radiation events helps reduce the risk to the crew.
20 Aug 2018 1:24 AM
It has long been assumed that the Martian surface is inhospitable to life as we know it on Earth, and the search for life has gone subsurface now.
27 Jul 2018 12:11 AM
The researchers said it could take years to verify whether something is actually living in this body of water.
26 Jul 2018 9:41 AM
This is a seasonal occurrence on the Martian South Pole.
15 Jul 2018 7:36 PM
The rover’s soil sampler accidentally burned up the organic compounds in the Martian soil.
15 Jul 2018 7:16 PM
On the intervening night of July 27-28, the Moon will be totally eclipsed for one hour, 43 minutes.
09 Jul 2018 1:20 AM
The atmosphere on Mars may have been much denser about 3.6 to 3.8 billion years ago than it is today.
30 Jun 2018 4:13 PM
The weather conditions have prompted NASA's Opportunity rover to suspend science operations.
26 Jun 2018 5:32 PM
A dust storm on Mars is posing a threat to one of NASA’s rovers with the vehicle becoming unresponsive at a site called Perseverance Valley.
14 Jun 2018 8:53 AM
New findings released have marked some of the strongest evidence ever that Earth’s neighbour may have harboured life.
08 Jun 2018 12:50 PM
Over the last week, two CubeSats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B have been firing their propulsion systems to guide themselves toward Mars.
04 Jun 2018 6:28 PM
The Helicopter will take flight in thin Martian atmosphere with twin counter-rotating blades
12 May 2018 9:14 AM
InSight will dig deeper into Mars than ever before — nearly 16 feet, or 5 metres — to take the planet’s temperature.
06 May 2018 8:57 AM
The Mars InSight probe is due for liftoff on Saturday before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
05 May 2018 9:26 AM
Atlas V rocket set to launch early morning from California with the Mars InSight lander.
05 May 2018 9:17 AM
The fracture occurred near the shield’s outer edge and spans the circumference of the component, NASA said.
29 Apr 2018 10:21 AM
If the 2020 mission goes to plan it would be Europe’s first rover on Mars.
28 Apr 2018 9:21 AM
It would have been the first US lunar lander since Apollo 17 in 1972.
28 Apr 2018 9:18 AM