The latest statement comes hours after US President Donald Trump's pick to lead Nasa said that they can focus on both the ...

Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give ... Some telemetry of rover position and orientation were transmitted live during the landing process, with the rest recorded and downloaded ...

NASA is also awaiting a modified version of Starship as a lunar lander for its Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon this decade.

It wants to learn the skills and develop the technology to enable a future human landing on Mars. Click here to listen to a special 5 Live documentary, Apollo 8: Christmas on the Far Side of the Moon.

You might think that as the guy who had landed more stuff on Mars than anyone else on the planet, I would know what it would take to land anything there. The truth was that I knew about landing ...

He masterminded the audacious landing of the Curiosity Rover 'on Mars in 2012.' DR. ADAM STELTZNER:I have tried… to describe that, many times, and I fall short. And I fall short because it ...

Most of the ring lies in the lakebed, but because Mars landing is still not an exact science, it also includes more treacherous terrain, like the rocky delta and a bit of the crater rim ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Sunday (March 30) that it has picked Airbus to design and build the landing platform for its life-hunting Mars rover Rosalind Franklin, which is ...