For the past two years, a NASA spacecraft has sat lifeless on the surface of Mars, its solar panels caked with dirt. Despite the fact that InSight retired in December 2022, engineers quietly hoped ...

NASA's InSight lander is part of NASA's budget-minded Discovery program, but it's accomplishing a surprising number of "firsts" on Mars in spite of the smaller budget. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

It’s now been over two months since NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars. The landing went as smoothly as anyone could have hoped, and the site where the robot touched down ended up being ...

Mars has begun to collect its own museum pieces. One of the most poignant exhibits is NASA’s InSight lander, now a silent shape on the flat equatorial plains of Elysium Planitia, slowly disappearing ...

Behold the “mole”: The heat-sensing spike that NASA’s InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft’s robotic arm successfully removed the support structure ...

A closer look at what goes into wrapping up the mission as the spacecraft’s power supply continues to dwindle. The day is approaching when NASA’s Mars InSight lander will fall silent, ending its ...

Most space missions investigate the surface or atmosphere of a body. But NASA’s InSight probe, which landed on Mars in November 2018, is different – it is the first mission dedicated to studying the ...

Early in the morning on May 5, InSight was launched, along with the two tiny Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket = making it the first NASA mission to launch ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.