Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just seconds before silence. The lander managed to transmit a fragmentary image and a burst of telemetry, then its signal cut out after ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The maneuver will save propellant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche mission is headed for an encounter with Mars today (May 15

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 of Mars about 15 minutes before sunset on Aug 21, 1976

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory toward the asteroid belt. During the maneuver, the ...