New research published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests that InSight captured the biggest marsquake ever recorded earlier this year. The paper, which studies the discovery in-depth, was ...

NASA’s InSight lander has detected the first known “marsquake.” The spacecraft picked up the faint trembling of Mars’s surface on April 6, 128 days after landing on the planet last November. The quake ...

An image of InSight's seismometer, taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Share Earth isn’t alone: The Red Planet shakes, too. For the first time, a ...

NASA's Mars rovers have provided breathtaking images from the surface of Mars for many years, but listening to Mars is a whole other story. The InSight lander, which touched down on Mars in late 2018, ...

Many different NASA-made landers, orbiters, and rovers have been sent to Mars over the years to study our red planetary neighbor, but perhaps one of the most exciting missions to be deployed in recent ...

On May 4, three-and-a-half years into its mission, NASA’s InSight lander registered the largest “marsquake” ever detected. The magnitude 5.0 quake was nearly 10 times more powerful than the previous ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

One of the reasons the InSight lander was sent to Mars is to measure the ground motions of the planet as a means to better understand inner workings. In the beginning of April, the mission officially ...