3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...

Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. Facts There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

NASA’S Perseverance rover has beamed back incredible first colour images of Mars after successfully landing on the Red Planet. There was a pic of one of the space vehicle’s six wheels, taken by one of ...

LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — NewsNation reporter Gene Kang stopped by NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab as the agency celebrated a successful rover launch years in the making. “Touchdown confirmed!

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs. Some are still going.

Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...