"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...

A 14-year-old from Pleasanton is using cutting-edge artificial intelligence in hopes of solving a problem that occurred millions of miles from Earth.

NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet. The rover, ...

Throw a ball up into the air and it begins to slow immediately after leaving your hand, reaching some height before falling ...

On reaching Mars on July 4, 1997, the spacecraft entered the planet's thin atmosphere, was slowed by a parachute and then rockets, and then landed by bouncing on inflated airbags. Once on the surface, ...

NASA launched Spirit, a Mars rover wrapped in airbags and designed for a 90-sol mission. It not only landed safely using an ...

Since landing in 2012, the Curiosity rover has been roaming around Mars trying to discover if the planet could have ever supported microbial life. Now, NASA has shown the damage it has picked up ...

This artist’s concept shows how NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover was lowered to the planet’s surface using the sky crane maneuver. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Twelve years ago, NASA landed its six-wheeled ...

Curiosity was the first NASA rover to use the agency's Sky Crane technology, quite different from the airbags of its predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity. The plan for the earlier rovers and last ...

Isro's rover will arrive on Mars in a revolutionary way. Instead of using traditional methods like airbags and ramps, the rover will be gently lowered onto the Martian surface with an advanced sky ...

Grand entrance on Mars Bid farewell to conventional methods like airbags and ramps. Isro's rover is set to make its grand entrance on Mars with flair, courtesy of an advanced sky crane.