Mars Science Laboratory Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory in August 2012. But that will be just the start of this most ...

and Landing (EDL) capabilities beyond what are currently available and in use. The largest payload delivered to the Martian surface to date has been the Mars Science Laboratory with the Curiosity ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Rocket Lab proposes a three-launch MSR mission, beginning with a telecommunications satellite that would remain in Mars orbit and be available for use by NASA and other customers beyond the MSR ...

The result was a "hard" sideways landing on a steep slope ... fed into designs for more powerful Mars helicopters now being studied at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where Ingenuity was built.

Dr. Jolly has served Project Orion off and on as an independent advisor and tiger team lead for entry, descent and landing. He was Program Manager for the Mars Science Lab Aeroshell and a member of ...

Russia is testing a new plasma rocket engine that would drastically reduce travel time from earth to mars using charged ...

As September turns summer into fall, our old friend Saturn sinks into the sun’s afterglow. Left behind – for now – in the evening sky, Mars manages to avoid the same fate. But ...

TIM PEAKE:Hi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency, in Germany. And from December 2015 to June 2016, I spent 6 months orbiting Earth on the International Space ...

Then the landing vehicle must turn itself into a launch vehicle that will blast into Mars ... the lab has hired back 43 experienced employees who had left. JPL employees talk science and more ...