Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

At the height of the space race in the late 1970s, the Viking probes successfully landed on Mars – collecting pictures, data, and samples from the red planet. It was so successful that Soviet ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Chryse Planitia was the landing site of NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 and is a vast lowland region formed by an ancient impact. Using high-resolution images and spectral composition data from the ...

One of the Red Planet’s features is known as the Martian dichotomy, which describes the sharp contrast between its southern and northern hemispheres. Around one-third of the planet's northern ...

Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.

It would also risk national humiliation, should the Chinese achieve their promised crewed moon landing by 2030. America is unlikely to achieve a crewed Mars landing by the end of Trump’s second ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

ESA wants to get ahead on the key tech needed for a precision landing on the Red Planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

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Mr. Trump has mentioned landing on Mars before. During a campaign rally in Reading, Pa., on Oct. 9, he promised that this would occur during his presidency. “We will lead the world in space and ...