Our museum collection, like a lot of other museums' collections, is sometimes a working collection. That means that ...

Key historical sites include the USSR’s Mars 2 lander and PrOP-M rover ... ten seconds after its hard landing. The American Viking 1 lander, the first to successfully operate on Mars, and ...

The job of Viking 2 is long over and some believe ... The authors hope to use a similar approach on Mars. Each rover that breaks down, every lander that winds up covered by dust and sand, is ...

The idea might sound strange at first—no human has set foot on Mars. But Holcomb and his colleagues trace our Martian imprint back to 1971, when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 became the first ...

into the IM-2 mission lunar lander, named Athena. Athena and the LSCS will voyage to the lunar south pole region in the upcoming IM-2 mission, where Nokia and Intuitive Machines intend to deploy ...

Nokia (NOK) and Intuitive Machines (LUNR) announced the successful final integration of Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communication System, LSCS, into the IM-2 mission lander, named Athena. Athena and ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...

A new analysis of marsquakes measured by NASA’s InSight lander indicates Mars has a solid inner core – but other researchers ...

NASA's InSight lander mission on Mars has ended. The lander studied Marsquakes and the planet's interior. Dust accumulated on its solar panels, causing power loss. Orbiting spacecraft captured ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only get two of ...