Ten years ago today, NASA launched the rover Spirit on a mission to find signs that life may have once existed on Mars. The robotic vehicle faced countless hardships that threatened to derail the ...

The Mars rover Spirit is still operational, but NASA scientists will stop trying to free it from a sandtrap and focus on the rover's survival and ability to conduct experiments where it's stuck.

After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a ...

Few things are harder than hurling a robot into space — and sticking the landing. On the morning of July 4, 1997, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., were hoping ...

“I don’t think anyone expected the Rover to survive all these disasters,” a scientist says of two NASA machines becoming seemingly human in Ryan White's heartwarming documentary. By Etan Vlessing ...

A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and returned stunning images of the area around its landing site in Gusev Crater. Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully sent a radio ...

Scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are giving up on the Martian rover Spirit. The six-wheeled robot has been mired in sand for about two years, and the final commands issued early ...

Spirit, the untiring robotic “wonder child” sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year–that’s almost two Earth years–on Mars. Designed to ...

Steven Spielberg has been known to explore science fiction in many of his films, like Minority Report, E.T. The Extraterrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But his company Amblin rockets ...

Recently, the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" has been sleeping through work shifts and suffering from bouts of amnesia. John Callas, rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...