NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

FIfty years after the Viking missions landed on Mars, Lockheed Martin is planning for the next steps to the Red Planet ...

This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. It shows the Chryse Planitia region ...

A mission to Mars is far more than a spectacular landing—it's a journey that pushes the human body and mind to their absolute ...

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 touched down on the Red Planet, and became the first robotic spacecraft to successfully carry out ...

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago, so why haven't we sent people there? Because there are no property rights in space ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. There's a reason Jezero ...

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces. The ...