China is another step closer to bringing the first pieces of the red planet back to Earth with the development of a ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) 's Hera asteroid probe, has successfully completed a critical milestone in its mission to ...

NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging ...

8. Together, the maneuvers have sped up Hera by 544 feet per second (166 meters per second), setting the spacecraft on course to rendezvous with Mars in March 2025. It will use the Red Planet for ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.

However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...

A large proportion of missions launched toward Mars have been lost due to failed components, rocket glitches, or grievous errors that sent probes crashing into the Martian surface or missing the ...