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 European Space Agency's missing Beagle 2 lander has finally been spotted on the surface of Mars, bringing a 12-year-old mystery to an end. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the ...

(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: ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 26 -- Engineers searched in vain again Friday for radio signals from Europe's first Mars lander, which slammed into the red planet's atmosphere Christmas Eve on a mission to ...

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 ...

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Mars lander left its mothership on Sunday after a seven-month journey from Earth and headed towards the red planet's surface to test technologies for Europe's planned first ...

And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter. Starting Tuesday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows ...

Talking to planetary scientists can be like walking into a foreign country and not speaking the language. Here's a guide to some of the terms that scientists on the Phoenix mission use: EDL: Entry, ...

Boynton, 63, a University of Arizona cosmochemistry and geochemistry professor, has worked on Mars missions since 1984. His gamma ray spectrometer on the Mars Odyssey Orbiter showed evidence of high ...