Mars Exploration

NASA InSight unfolds solar arrays, snaps some pictures on Mars after safety checks

Engineers plan to fold open & use InSight’s five arms to get cracking on some geology experiments.

Driving Mars Curiosity Rover remotely on the red planet and challenges encountered

The Curiosity rover executes the commands, moving slowly to its designated position, at a maximum speed of 35 to 110 meters (yards) per hour.

NASA's Mars exploration InSight Spacecraft to lift off today aboard ULA Atlas V rocket from California; expected to study marsquakes

It will launch at 7.05 am (4.35 pm India time) aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Curiosity rover gets first Mars rock samples

NASA's Curiosity rover has become the first spacecraft ever to drill into a Martian rock and collect stone powder samples for further study, NASA said...

NASA's Mars chief frets over heat shield for probe

So far, the scorecard for missions to Mars reads attempts 40, successes 14. Not so good. Well over 60 percent of Earth missions to Mars ...

Out of the world: Mars travel possible by 2022!

The first commercial round-trips to Mars will blast off within 10 years, says a rocket entrepreneur.

Out of the world: Mars travel possible by 2022!

The first commercial round-trips to Mars will blast off within 10 years, says a rocket entrepreneur.

Mars-bound NASA rover begins trajectory manoeuver

NASA's latest rover to Mars fired its thrusters Wednesday to adjust its course to the red planet for a landing in August.

Mars-bound NASA rover begins trajectory manoeuver

NASA's latest rover to Mars fired its thrusters Wednesday to adjust its course to the red planet for a landing in August.