Opportunity transmits first images
Posted: Sun, Jan 25 10:12 AM ET (1512 GMT)
The Mars rover Opportunity has taken the first images of its landing site, revealing a relatively flat, featureless plain save for an unusual outcropping of...

Opportunity lands on Mars
Posted: Sun, Jan 25 3:04 AM ET (0804 GMT)
Opportunity, the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, successfully landed on the surface of Mars early Sunday. The rover landed at 12:05...

Spirit condition improves as Opportunity nears landing
Posted: Sat, Jan 24 10:39 PM ET (0339 GMT)
Engineers have isolated the problem that has effectively shut down NASA's Mars rover Spirit and believe the problem can be resolved, officials said Saturday....

Boeing, Lockheed win military satcom study contracts
Posted: Sat, Jan 24 9:29 AM ET (1429 GMT)
The US Air Force awarded contracts Thursday worth nearly half a billion dollars each to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop designs for a next-...

NASA: reviving Spirit could take weeks
Posted: Fri, Jan 23 5:54 PM ET (2254 GMT)
NASA flight controllers were able to reestablish limited communications with the Mars rover Spirit on Friday, but cautioned that it could take days or even...

Mars Express confirms presence of water ice at Martian south pole
Posted: Fri, Jan 23 1:50 PM ET (1850 GMT)
ESA released Friday the first scientific results from its Mars Express spacecraft, confirming the presence of water ice in the south polar regions of the...

Anomaly stops transmission of Spirit data
Posted: Thu, Jan 22 4:53 PM ET (2153 GMT)
A "serious anomaly" on the Spirit Mars rover has kept the spacecraft from transmitting any data back to Earth for over 24 hours, flight controllers...

Weather slows down Spirit activities
Posted: Thu, Jan 22 11:04 AM ET (1604 GMT)
A terrestrial thunderstorm apparently disrupted communications between flight controllers and NASA's Mars rover Spirit on Wednesday, preventing the spacecraft from carrying out planned scientific...

Report concludes NASA still far from shuttle return to flight
Posted: Thu, Jan 22 10:52 AM ET (1552 GMT)
An interim report by an independent task force concluded this week that NASA, while making progress on returning the shuttle to flight, still has considerable...

Spirit observations reveal surprises about Martian soil
Posted: Wed, Jan 21 11:00 AM ET (1600 GMT)
The initial analysis of data collected by NASA's Mars rover Spirit reveal that the soil in the Gusev Crater landing site may have more...