On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and most ambitious Mars rover ever launched. Its landing involved a new kind of ...

Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world. That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, ...

For all these missions, entering and descending through the Martian atmosphere and putting an undamaged lander on the surface (the mission phase known as EDL, for entry, descent, and landing) has been ...

A year ago today the Curiosity rover's wheels touched Martian soil after a daring descent via a rocket-powered sky crane. Even if you've already seen the video of the landing, watch it again. I can't ...

NASA's newly landed Curiosity rover is busy taking pictures, roving, and just being awesome on another planet. A few of Curiosity's pictures revealed, for lack of a more appropriate word, some ...

Adam Steltzner (center) and team await the good news from their Mars lander last August. NASA/T. Wynne The 40-member team at NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory that developed the Sky Crane landing ...

The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover is closing in on the Red Planet for a white-knuckle descent to the surface using an untried "sky crane" technique to ensure a pinpoint landing on the ...

While the world giddily looks on at beautiful photos taken by Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity, it's important to zoom out and consider the bigger picture: By successfully landing Curiosity on ...

The highly anticipated landing of NASA's sophisticated $2.5 billion rover on Mars will be broadcast on a large screen in New York City's Times Square, NASA said on Tuesday.

Death Valley days -- Tango Delta : touchdown -- A long road to a Red Planet -- Setting the stage -- The scarecrow -- Laying the foundation : Mars Pathfinder -- Curiosity's cousins : Spirit and ...

As we look forward to the arrival of spring and relief from COVID claustrophobia, anticipation of an exciting new chapter in exploration is running high with the ramped-up activity at Mars. The Red ...