NASA's latest update on Perseverance shows how the Mars rover is holding up after five years and what that means for future ...

This year, NASA’s scientific rover Opportunity celebrated a milestone. It has been exploring Mars for ten years, even though it was only supposed to operate for three months. John Callas is the ...

The golf cart-size rover was designed to last only three months, but proved itself to be an unexpected endurance athlete. It traveled more than the distance of a marathon when less than half a mile ...

NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun. Officials said Wednesday they're hopeful ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to operate for just 90 days, but kept going for 15 years. NASA officially declared it dead on Wednesday, and its last message to scientists before it went dark ...

NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars did not return a call from Earth yesterday (June 12) while enduring a massive dust storm that scientists have called "one of the most intense ever observed." "The ...

Martian dust once merely seemed like an engineering nuisance, the grit that dimmed solar panels and clogged joints. Now the same fine powder that ended a legendary rover’s life is emerging as a ...

NASA has launched a competition to help develop food sources for astronauts on Mars. The winning idea might even help people ...

The longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, Opportunity snapped pictures of a strange landscape and revealed surprising glimpses into the distant past of Mars for ...