Ten years ago this evening, NASA's Opportunity Rover parachuted to the surface of Mars and settled on the red, iron-stained soil of Meridiani Planum. That iron was likely deposited eons ago in hot ...

It's time say goodbye to the Opportunity rover. The rover's team made its last attempt to contact Opportunity on Tuesday night, and it went unanswered. On Wednesday, NASA confirmed that the mission is ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover far exceeded its original mission, operating on Mars for nearly 15 years instead of 90 days. During ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an object of curiosity. In 1877, astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed a network of straight lines which he ...

Artist's illustration of a six-wheeled rover on the surface of Mars, with a rock-studded reddish landscape in the background. Twenty years ago this month, twin spacecraft made dramatic planetary ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to operate for just 90 days, but kept going for 15 years. NASA officially declared it dead on Wednesday, and its last message to scientists before it went dark ...

The initial work of NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.

There's a new documentary about the Opportunity rover's life on Mars. "Good Night Oppy" is available for streaming November 23. The film highlights how mission scientists created a wake-up playlist ...

Opportunity lost. NASA has officially declared an end to the mission of the six-wheeled rover on Mars. Opportunity lost power in a dust storm last June, and all efforts to make contact have failed.

Opportunity and Spirit launched in 2003 and landed on Mars in 2004, searching for signs of ancient life. Opportunity found hematite at its landing site: little round things all over the ground that ...