The Opportunity rover's mission on Mars was nothing short of extraordinary, lasting an astounding 14 years, over 20 times longer than initially expected. Launched in 2003 alongside its twin, Spirit, ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover, one of the most successful interplanetary missions in history, came to a dramatic and poignant end in 2019, after 15 years of groundbreaking exploration on Mars. The rover’s ...

"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...