In early 1999, an ambitious Mars lander was launched. The mission of the Mars Polar Lander was to land on Mars, sample the ground and air, and get us one step closer to putting people on the Red ...

Jan. 6 -- The project scientist for the missing Mars Polar Lander mission called published reports that the lander probably tumbled down into a canyon “way premature.” Members of the Lockheed Martin ...

P A S A D E N A,   Calif.,   Jan. 17 -- After more than a month of searching for a signal from NASA’s Mars Polar Lander, mission controllers today gave up hope of saving the $165 million ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only get two of ...

LONDON -- Scientists at a British observatory, listening for a signal from Europe's first Mars lander, failed to determine Thursday if the Beagle 2 arrived on the Red Planet, a government agency said.

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. 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: ...