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

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. NASA’s Viking Program ...

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

In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary ...

In simple words, NASA will provide the brain of the mission, a set of advanced instruments called Aeolus, while Relativity Space will provide the body, meaning the spacecraft, the rocket (named Terran ...

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 ...

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 ...

As plans for crewed missions to Mars advance, a study led by two Portuguese scientists at Lisbon University's Faculty of ...

It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one of a pair of Viking spacecraft, ...

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 ...