How do you get people excited about a Mars rover that will attempt to land on the Red Planet in five days? You enlist the help of "Star Trek" icons Captain James T. Kirk and Wesley Crusher. Actors ...

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 ...

Getting to Mars is only half the problem. Landing there is where everything can go wrong. Starship arrives moving far faster than Mars itself, with nowhere near enough fuel to simply slow down and ...