(CNN) — Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine successful US Mars landings: Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976 ...

Discover 10 interesting facts about NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). It is the rocket that powers Artemis missions to the Moon and deep space exploration.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is of like mind. Earlier this year, Musk said that the company aims to launch a small, uncrewed fleet of its Starship megarockets toward Mars in late 2026, carrying Tesla Optimus humanoid robots to explore the Red Planet.

(Reuters) - Here are some facts about Mars and missions to the Red Planet as Russia opened the hatch on an isolation study on Friday: -- The isolation experiment simulated a 520-day mission to Mars. Six volunteers were locked away in windowless cells since ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover. The close-up shows a blurry shape that resembles a fly.

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have often seen glaciers coated in dust on the ...