NASA Phoenix Mars Lander is poised for a Saturday launch towards the red planet.

The Phoenix Lander lowers itself onto Mars using a set of powerful thrusters. No airbags for this tricky touch down on the red planet. Image(Image credit: JPL/Corby Waste) ...

Touchdown! NASA’s Phoenix lander has survived its harrowing descent to Mars and apparently stands poised to conduct what scientists hope will be a revealing investigation of the Red Planet’s ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander, now only nine days into its breakthrough mission, is already causing scientists to buzz about what it has found. Images taken by Phoenix and relayed back to Earth show ...

Phoenix carries hardware from two unsuccessful missions: the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander. The Polar Lander crashed on Mars. Mars Surveyor was built but never launched.

The phenomenally popular Mars Phoenix Lander mission has officially come to an end. Originally slated for a mere 90 days near the Martian north pole, clever NASA power engineers kept the Lander ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars lander touched down Sunday and began transmitting pictures from the northern arctic plains of Mars where scientists hope to find evidence of water and life-sustaining ...

After weeks of struggling to scrape icy material from just below the surface of Mars, NASA’s Phoenix lander has collected and analysed its first sample of water ice. “We’ve finally touched ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander, the UA’s project in collaboration with NASA, got a warm welcome Friday as it was unveiled to the public for the first time at a dinner celebration. The lander, which was ...

NEW YORK — Mission controllers lost touch with the Mars Phoenix Lander Nov. 2, a few weeks earlier than NASA had predicted.

NEW YORK — NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander weathered its first dust storm on the red planet Oct. 11-12, though the dust did lower the amount of solar power available for the lander and put t… ...