Spirit Rover crashed onto Mars in 2004 wrapped in airbags and immediately began rewriting what humanity knew about the Red ...

Time is running out for NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit as engineers prepare to make their final attempts to rescue the hard-luck robot from its Martian sand trap. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called “Home Plate” has blocked NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward ...

Mars rovers are robotic vehicles designed to explore the surface of the Red Planet. Since 1997, space agencies have sent a series of increasingly advanced rovers to Mars to search for signs of ancient ...

This is the first image taken of Earth from the surface of another planet. It was captured by NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission in 2004 ...

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 ...

The team that operates rovers on Mars is using a test rover in southern California to assess maneuvers the Mars rover Spirit might use to get out of soft, loose soil where its wheels have sunk ...

The NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was driving across a crusty surface on Mars one day when it fell through and got stuck. When it tried to drive out its wheels flew up some soft soil under the ...