German startup Atmos Space Cargo has called the first flight of its donut-shaped reentry vehicle a success. Atmos’ Phoenix spacecraft was launched by SpaceX’s Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission on ...

This story was updated at 1:33 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON — With just 12 days to go until its Mars arrival, NASA's Phoenix lander isfunctioning well and on course to be the first mission to land in ...

The $420-million Phoenix mission, which launched in August, is designed to dig down to the rock-hard layers of water ice thought to lie under the Martian soil in the northern arctic region.

The Phoenix is a planned multi-agency Mars lander, headed by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, under the direction of NASA, scheduled to launch on August 3, 2007. It is a ...

Several years before the Phoenix concept was developed, NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey mission had mapped the amount and distribution of several chemical elements and minerals that compose the surface of ...

On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a nine-month, 422 million-mile journey.

— -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft successfully touched down on the surface of Mars Sunday night, the first time in 32 years that the space agency has landed a probe on the Red Planet using ...

The first spacecraft designed to taste the water of an alien planet landed safely on Mars’ northern pole Sunday afternoon, beginning a three-month mission to determine whether the Red Planet ...

If the lander deploys properly, the spacecraft will dig for ice, then melt and analyze it to see if it could have supported life. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft scheduled to land on Mars - Los Angeles ...

The Phoenix mission, which required a total US investment of $420 million, is a partnership of universities in the US, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany and the UK, NASA, ...