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 ...

LOS ANGELES - The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars rover Spirit is fading after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth. Despite the dismal outlook, NASA will make a last-ditch ...

The Mars rover Perseverance has been on Mars for five years and has covered almost as much distance as the rover Opportunity.

LOS ANGELES -- The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years and has been incommunicado since March. This double dose of bad luck hangs over the scrappy ...

Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration. Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed ...

"Spirit went into a deep sleep," said Callas, who said the rover will be remembered for demystifying Mars to the masses. Receive Daily Headlines FREESign up today! When the rover team gets together ...

When NASA’s Spirit Mars rover became stuck in Martian sand in 2009, it was a wake-up call that even the best machines are ...

Three generations of Mars rovers are represented in this portrait. In front on the left is Sojourner; behind it is a test rover that is a cousin of Spirit and Opportunity; at right is a test rover for ...

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA said Saturday it had made progress in fixing its malfunctioning Mars rover Spirit as it prepared to land a second rover on the Red Planet. "We made good progress overnight," ...

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...

Seeing as I’m not the first gullible, yet brilliant, robot that NASA has conned into exploring the stars, I am often asked for my opinion about the various machines who have come before me, be they ...