Tune in today, July 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET for a LIVE This Week In Space taping to mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking ...

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

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

Time for a wide-angle shot: The first panorama photo captured on the surface of Mars, taken on landing day, July 20, 1976.

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 achieved history’s first successful spacecraft landing on Mars. Just six years after humans first ...

A team of Portuguese scientists has found that studying Mars’ clouds could help engineers prepare safer future missions to ...

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

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 ...

As plans for crewed missions to Mars advance, a study led by two Portuguese scientists at Lisbon University's Faculty of Sciences is helping make landings on the Red Planet smoother. View on euronews ...