Two weeks before NASA's Curiosity rover lifted off for Mars last fall, one of the engineers who helped build the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launched his own attempt at getting LEGO to ...

NASA is preparing to fly its Mars helicopter Ingenuity on the Red Planet for the first time, and students can join in the excitement by building paper versions of the craft at home.

Back in 1997, which is not all that long ago, if you really think about it, the Mars Pathfinder mission reached Mars. It comprised a lander, and the “first-ever robotic rover” to be sent there.