50 years after Viking 1's historic Mars landing, NASA is looking to the Red Planet's skies

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

50 years later, Viking 1’s legacy is powering NASA’s next giant leap on Mars

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

Image: The growing crescent of Mars as NASA's psyche mission approaches

This composite of images taken by NASA's Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the ...