As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the landing platform for the first British-made rover set to ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, including decane, undecane, and dodecane, in a 3.7 billion-year-old rock sample. These findings suggest Mars ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ... more than 20 miles since landing in 2012 in a region ...

These are the largest organic molecules discovered on Mars to date. NASA/Dan Gallagher Despite its freezing temperatures, thin atmosphere, and lack of surface water today, scientists believe that ...

“In the 1960s the Apollo program went from blueprints to lunar landing in less than a decade. But Mars is another beast,” Sutter noted. “At its closest approach, that planet is 56 million ...

We learned that from Mark Watney in the movie Martian, didn’t we ... “We are just a few years away from landing on Mars", the 53-year-old wrote in a post dated 2024. “Less than 5 years for uncrewed, ...

The Delta Air Lines plane that landed upside down in Toronto in February suffered a landing gear collapse as it made contact with the runway, according to a new report. Investigators released a ...

Pearson International Airport last month. The right main landing gear collapsed after making contact with the runway, setting off the chain of events. While all passengers and crew members ...

All 80 people on board the Delta flight survived. The right main landing gear collapsed on impact when a Delta flight landed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last month, with the wing ...

Even so, there’s still a long road to go to get to Mars. In the 1960s the Apollo program went from blueprints to lunar landing in less than a decade. But Mars is another beast. At its closest ...