Watch NASA’s Mars 2020 ‘movie trailer’ with Perseverance as the star
The long-awaited Mars mission is set to launch from Cape Canaveral on July 30
NASA’s InSight lander is still stuck in the Martian soil
It needs to dig 3 meters deep, which is proving a challenge
NASA’s Perseverance rover is attached to Atlas V rocket ahead of launch
Launch is scheduled for late July to early August
Mars Curiosity rover is embarking on a summer road trip
It’s heading to a new part of Mount Sharp, which it’s been exploring since 2014
How Curiosity is keeping itself entertained on Mars over the long weekend
No holidays off on the red planet
Mars 2020 mission launch date is pushed for the third time
It’s the third delay in a month, but NASA is determined to launch by August 15
Welcome to Cloud City: The case for going to Venus, not Mars
There are some encouraging signs. Russia is working on its first Venus probe since 1983, the long-delayed and (to English ears) unfortunately-named Venera-D. Its goal is to study Venus’ greenhouse…
Watch how NASA plans to deploy the first-ever Mars helicopter
The 314-million-mile journey ‘all comes down to the last few inches’
SpaceX is building an offshore rocket launch facility
SpaceX plans to launch rockets from a new facility several miles offshore. A SpaceX job posting went up asking for an engineer to help “design and build an operational offshore…
NASA is making ‘fetch’ happen with its Mars sample collection rover
It will collect the samples of martian rock bagged by Perseverance