The first European rover to land on Mars- the Rosalind Franklin- is being designed and built by Airbus in Stevenage in the U.K.. Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency and Thales Alenia ...

Trump aims to send a crew to Mars by the end of his term, which Musk calls 'doable.' Astronauts question the time frame but ...

India is preparing for Mangalyaan-2, a follow-up to its successful Mars Orbiter Mission. ISRO plans to achieve a historic first by landing a spacecraft on Mars. The mission involves a direct entry ...

What gives Katie Stack Morgan the confidence to point not just to the Jezero Crater but to an area on its edge, which she hopes the Mars 2020 rover will explore? A new technology, “terrain ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) revealed full plans for Mangalyaan-2, the country’s second mission to Mars. Unlike its predecessor, this mission aimed to land on the Martian surface and ...

As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

Named after the British scientist whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, the rover will be the first European made rover to land on Mars. In a statement, Paul ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ... for human exploration of the red planet, and is the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.