On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket. NASA asked if their EDL (entry, ...

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 ...

NASA released a new video Monday from last week’s historic landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars. “These are the stuff of our dreams. It’s what we’ve been dreaming about,” Al Chen, Perseverance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flags fly in front of the Airbus plant in Bremen. Sina Schuldt/dpa European aerospace group Airbus is to build the landing ...

The head of the NASA team in charge of the entry, descent and landing of Curiosity, shares what he learned. Management Lessons From The Mars Rover Landing NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Adam ...

What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for finding life beyond Earth? This is what a ...

On Wednesday, October 19, an experimental Mars lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) is going to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet, a practice mission to prepare for a rover landing.

When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a high‑risk landing. It opened a new era in which rovers became the primary way ...

NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up ...