Mars ended NASA’s InSight mission on its own terms, not with a dramatic crash or a catastrophic malfunction, but with a slow, suffocating blanket of dust that starved the lander of power. That quiet ...

You don’t need wheels to explore Mars. After touching down in November, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm … and stay put. Unlike the space agency’s rovers, ...

We’re constantly learning more about the other planets in our solar system, especially Mars thanks to the multiple missions currently active there. But even retired missions can provide data for years ...

NASA scientists have uncovered an unexpected presence inside Mars, a solid mass around 373 miles in size. This finding has been explained in detail within the journal Nature. The data on which these ...

Dust blankets the solar panels of the Mars Insight lander, shortly before its demise. NASA The life of the Mars InSight lander came to an end last year as its solar panels were covered with dust and ...

The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA’s InSight lander, took this picture of the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018, the same day the spacecraft touched down on the ...

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Illustration of the planet Mars covered in water in the past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. Now scientists may have found an unground reservoir. Is there water on Mars? Scientists using ...

MARS -- NASA released images on Monday showing what scientists are calling a "monster earthquake" on Mars. The agency says the quake shook the planet Mars on May 4, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of ...

Add this to Mars’ long list of mysteries. NASA’s now defunct InSight Mars Lander has produced data that indicates that the red planet’s rotation rate, the rate at which it spins on its axis, is ...