The stakes couldn't be higher for NASA's Perseverance Rover as it prepares for its historic landing on Mars. With years of ...

NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...

What might go wrong when a spacecraft lands back from orbit, bearing not just the remains of 166 people but the hopes of ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program MARS Dead or Alive: In Slowing Things Down, students investigate three variables affecting a parachute's rate of descent and then design a parachute that ...

A reverse-image search using Google Lens returned a public-domain image that identified the wreckage in the photo as the backshell and parachute from the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter.

That work ranged from parafoils developed in the 1960s for potential use on Gemini spacecraft to parachutes flown on Mars lander missions and the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule.

Heathcoat Fabrics are working with NASA again to make parachute material for a future mission to Mars.

Discarded pieces of landing gear, crashed spacecraft and wear and tear have produced a lot of debris that is now scattered around the Martian surface.

Mars doesn’t have nearly the density of atmosphere as we have here on Earth. So to replicate the conditions a parachute will face on Mars, it will need to release where Earth’s atmosphere is thin.

Back in April this year, Perseverance located the parachute it used to land on Mars. Then in June, the rover also discovered a shiny piece of foil used as Perseverance's thermal blanket during its ...