South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. There's a reason Jezero ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reached a significant milestone in its ambitious ExoMars mission. The parachute system, essential for ensuring the safe landing of the Rosalind Franklin rover on ...

Once on Mars, the half dozen rotorcraft would act in concert as they explore the region around the landing site using cameras and subsurface radar scanners. Aside from general information, the goal ...

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 ...

ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has ...

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.

The Japanese space agency JAXA is studying use of inflatable aeroshells to enable landings of small Mars rovers. Credit: ISAS/JAXA WASHINGTON — An institute in Japan’s space agency is pursuing a ...

The flying saucers of science fiction movies might be the shape of things to come for future Mars missions that are expected to involve larger payloads that today's landing vehicles are not equipped ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.