The European Space Agency (ESA) has reached a significant milestone in its ambitious ExoMars mission. The parachute system, ...

A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arctic stratosphere.

There are two main parachutes: a first stage that is 15m wide, and a variant of the parachute used for the successful ESA ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently tested a parachute system designed to safely deliver the 310-kg Rosalind Franklin ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As one of Earth's closest neighbors in space, Mars has long captivated humans ...

NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity rover into Mars’ Gale Crater ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came in for a landing on the red planet at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday, late Sunday evening at NASA's mission control in California.

NASA's Curiosity rover explored Mars' Gale Crater, finding "boxwork" patterns and evidence of ancient waterways, providing clues about the red planet's watery past.

Curiosity Mars rover turns 10 NASA's Curiosity rover has captured the first close-up images of a part of Mars that scientists say provide evidence of how water once flowed on the red planet. There ...

Relive Mars rover’s ‘7 minutes of terror’ during landing 12 years ago At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is in the middle of a months-long journey up the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, and on Thursday it beamed back a status update. The vehicle started the climb in August ...