As plans for crewed missions to Mars advance, a study led by two Portuguese scientists at Lisbon University's Faculty of Sciences is helping make landings on the Red Planet smoother.

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

Mars as viewed by Psyche as it continued its mission through the solar system. Credit: NASA. At first, Mars was little more than a curved blade of light suspended in darkness. As NASA’s Psyche ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...

"Viking more likely than not found autotrophic microbial life on Mars, roughly 1,000 cells per gram." When you purchase ...

This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. It shows the Chryse Planitia region ...

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the first clear evidence of a powerful sandstorm that swept across Mars billions of years ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven a full marathon distance across the surface of Mars, covering 26.2 miles (42.195 km) in ...

Scientists are investigating how the unusual polygon-shaped ridges formed and whether nearby dark rocks are Martian debris or ...

Abstract: This article presents Enhanced Autonomous Navigation (ENav), the autonomous driving algorithm of NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance. A unique challenge for the autonomous driving of Perseverance ...