In a groundbreaking development, NASA has released stunning 4K footage of Mars, offering the most detailed and lifelike view ...

NASA's Mars Spirit Rover has gotten stuck on the edge of a sandy crater in the Martian hills, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said today it is giving up on trying to move the robot explorer.

NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been on the surface of Mars for more than eight years. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) This story was updated at 7:24 p.m. ET.

The Spirit rover, one of NASA’s most resilient explorers, embarked on its Martian journey in 2004, tasked with uncovering the mysteries of the Red Planet. Originally intended to last just 90 days, ...

After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer ...

The Mars rover Spirit is putting down roots. After months of trying to wiggle the rover out of a sand trap on Mars, the NASA probe remains firmly entrenched in the soft soil inside a small crater ...

Mars memorial. NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers, by carrying small pieces of the wreckage, paid tribute to the victims of the September 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers of the World Trade ...

The Spirit Rover was launched on June 10, 2003, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission, which most recently sent Curiosity to the Red Planet. Spirit was active from 2004 to 2010. It landed on ...

NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin ...

The Mars rover Spirit is still operational, but NASA scientists will stop trying to free it from a sandtrap and focus on the rover's survival and ability to conduct experiments where it's stuck.

Spirit comprises one half of NASA’s now legendary pair of Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Opportunity, her twin sister landed, on the opposite side of the Red Planet three weeks later – on Jan ...

It's been more than a year since NASA's Mars rover Spirit last contacted Earth, and the odds that the immobilized robot will ever wake up get smaller by the day. Still, NASA engineers have more ...