Successful entry, descent and landing on Mars by Perseverance rover sparked euphoria at JPL's mission control. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) Kink in the curve.

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has safely landed on Mars after its 292.5 million-mile journey from Earth, the agency confirmed.

It's landing day for Perseverance and all eyes are on the Red Planet. The rover spent the last seven months flying the roughly 125-million-mile (202 million kilometers) distance to Mars on a quest ...

Scientists say they may have found the perfect landing spot for humans on Mars. A team from the University of Mississippi has ...

Space Watch: NASA shows Perseverance rover's Mars landing 00:53. After a long weekend without any updates or imagery from the Perseverance Mars rover, NASA released a spectacular bounty of video ...

NASA prepares to land Perseverance rover on Mars 09:43. A week after two space probes from China and United Arab Emirates slipped into orbit around Mars, NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover, by ...

The Curiosity rover, which is currently on Mars, successfully used the same landing system in 2012. Perseverance used stronger parachutes and a more precise navigation system.

The largest payload to land on Mars so far is the Perseverance rover, which has a mass of about 1 metric ton. Successfully landing Perseverance and its predecessor Curiosity required a complicated ...

The Mars landing engines, which include eight retrorockets, will fire to slow the descent from 190 miles per hour to about 1.7 miles per hour.

The rover's entry, descent and landing on Mars were broadcast live on NASA's website and YouTube channel, with coverage commencing at 2:15 p.m. ET. Special Spanish language programming -- a first ...