The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the ...

On Aug. 4, 2007, NASA launched its Phoenix Mars Lander on a mission to touch down on Mars. The robotic spacecraft was ...

InSight landed on Mars in 2018 and was the first spacecraft to document a marsquake. It detected more than 1,300 marsquakes with its French-built seismometer, including several caused by meteoroid ...

Evidence with differing opinions Back in 1976, Viking, the first Mars lander designed to specifically look for life, carried a small laboratory where soil samples were fed nutrients, then heated.

Scientists working on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission are reporting what they call compelling evidence that the robot craft has found ice while digging on the Martian surface.

The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet. Scientists said that wasn’t a good sign for the Schiaparelli lander ...

PASADENA, Calif.–NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the ...

Since well before NASA landed the first humans on the moon, the US has poured money and time into proposals for a crewed Mars mission, only to see its attempts never leave the ground. But technology ...