Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag landing system to bounce safely onto the surface. The Mars Pathfinder mission marked a groundbreaking moment in NASA's ...

The launch in late 1996 of the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover then was exciting news indeed. Before Spirit, the exceptionally long-lived Opportunity, and the relatively huge ...

and the agency also sent the Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner rover mission to the Martian surface in 1997 with great scientific success, as it found round rocks that were likely shaped by water in ...

A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a ...

The Perseverance rover has spent more than three years on Mars scouring the area's rocks and soil for evidence that life once existed on the planet. Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ...