It was one of a twin set of spacecraft designed to take images of Mars, and the first one failed. Mariner 3 launched on November 5, 1964, but it lost power just eight hours later when the payload ...

The European Space Agency will attempt its first-ever live stream of images from Mars for one hour on Friday, giving space enthusiasts a live close-up view of the red planet for the first time ever.

Data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft shows that the little atmosphere Mars has sputters, ...

Mariner 4’s main mission was to take the first close-up images of Mars, which would tell us if it was a world that might harbour life,' he told MailOnline. 'However it showed Mars to be a ...

But on Friday afternoon, the European Space Agency offered the closest thing: the first "livestream" of Mars on YouTube, which posted pictures of the planet every 50 seconds as they beamed down ...

On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a ...

NASA 's Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the night sky for the first time from the Martian ground.

according to the European Space Agency. The ESA said in a news release that one of its Mars Express orbiter captured images of the "spiders," which are really just small, dark-colored features ...

The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with ...

The spacecraft was using the gravity of Mars to get a boost along its journey, but while doing so there was also an opportunity to do some testing. This picture of Mars is a composite of several ...