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 ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

He directed a team of engineers that built Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, mobile robots that offered astonishing glimpses into the planet’s ancient past. By Sam Roberts Growing up in California, ...

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 ...