This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity's landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit ...

NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

No one can speak more knowledgeably or eloquently about NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER ... [Editor's note: NASA has since decided that "Spirit," the MER launched on June 10, 2003, will ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

But after decades of study using orbiters, landers, and rovers, scientists have revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor microbial life beneath its rusty ...

Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging ... On top of that, there are local dust storms. The Spirit Rover, for example, is right next to an ...

What happened on January 4 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! Get On This Day In History delivered straight to ...

Perseverance, NASA’s Mars rover, has completed a daring ascent of Jezero Crater's rim, tackling steep grades and rugged ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April ... helicopter as well as China’s Zhurong rover, which is now exploring Utopia Planitia. NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working ...