Travel back to the early days of Mars exploration with Sojourer, Spirit, and Opportunity. Discover how these robotic pioneers ...

Mars exploration rover mission -- Mission impossible -- The making of the Mars rovers -- Are we really on Mars? -- Hitting the dusty trail -- Can Opportunity climb down? -- Can Spirit climb up? -- The ...

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 ...

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

Photo of Opportunity’s rock abrasion tool at the end of her robotic arm (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University). On Sept. 11, 2001, mechanical engineer Steve Gorevan was biking ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA's twin Mars rovers. Just weeks after landing in a Martian crater in 2004, it went haywire and transmitted gibberish to Earth. Engineers ...

Oct. 6, 2006 — -- "NASA is in the process of taking over Mars," said Steven Squyres, the principal investigator for the two rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which have been exploring the Martian ...

The revival of the auto industry is perfectly fine, but the hottest car around is a decidedly limited-edition one: the Opportunity rover, now celebrating its tenth year working and roving on the Red ...