Amateur puzzle fans delighted this week when NASA revealed it had hidden a secret color-coded message on the parachute for the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week. The message, written by ...

Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It's an even bigger challenge when you don't have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the ...

Internet sleuths claim they have decoded a hidden message on the parachute of NASA's Perseverance rover, which touched down on the surface of Mars last week. After more than six months of speeding ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a cannister of rocks and dust collected from near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

NASA Systems Engineer Ian Clark told the Associated Press he came up with the idea to spell out a hidden note in binary code on the rover’s parachute A puzzle lover on NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance ...

NASA thinks it knows why the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe's return capsule failed to deploy its drogue parachute as planned while descending through Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 24. The problem, which did ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex capsule carrying an asteroid sample successfully landed in a Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent ...