PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings ...

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 ...

Jan. 6 -- The project scientist for the missing Mars Polar Lander mission called published reports that the lander probably tumbled down into a canyon “way premature.” Members of the Lockheed Martin ...

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, ...