When landing on Mars was nearly impossible, NASA engineers invented giant inflatable airbags to cushion the impact. This video reveals the story behind this remarkable technology used in the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus the contract to design and construct the landing platform for the ExoMars ...

(CNN) -- The first pictures from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see.

(CNN) -- NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet's surface on the first day of its three-month mission "to taste and sniff the northern polar site's soil and ice," the space ...