NASA calls an end to Mars InSight lander mission, with Aerojet getting in on tributes Four years after engineers cheered the landing of the robotic InSight spacecraft on Mars, NASA today declared an end to… Read More
Two mini-probes fade into the sunset beyond Mars: Is Opportunity rover next? Farewell, WALL-E and EVE: NASA says it’s lost contact with two briefcase-sized MarCO nanosatellites, more than two months after their… Read More
NASA’s InSight lander carefully sets down its seismometer on the Martian surface After three weeks of checking out the scene on the Red Planet, NASA’s InSight lander has placed its first scientific… Read More
NASA orbiter spots InSight lander (and its junked hardware) on Mars’ surface Two weeks after NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars, its precise location on Elysium Planitia has been pinpointed, thanks… Read More
NASA’s InSight lander captures the first sounds of a ‘windy afternoon’ on Mars NASA’s Mars InSight lander is designed primarily to study the Red Planet’s interior, but it’s already produced a big bonus… Read More
NASA’s Mars InSight lander snaps selfies galore, including a name check for its fans One week after landing on the Martian plain of Elysium Planitia, NASA’s InSight lander is on a selfie-snapping spree — and… Read More
NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars and sends gloriously gritty pictures REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Mars InSight lander touched down on a heavenly Martian plain Monday, marking the first successful landing… Read More
From The Oatmeal to the space station, Mars InSight lander’s fans are all a-Twitter Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter. There was good-natured snark… Read More
Rev up the video: It’s time for NASA’s InSight lander to touch down on Mars Today’s the day for the Mars InSight lander’s touchdown on the Red Planet, and NASA is pulling out all the… Read More
Elon Musk says there’s a 70 percent chance he’ll move to Mars (and possibly die there) As NASA prepares for its next Mars landing on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is giving himself a 70 percent… Read More
All systems go for Mars InSight landing: Here’s how to watch online and in person After a 300 million-mile, six-month interplanetary cruise, NASA’s Mars InSight robotic lander is heading for a plain-vanilla arrival at the… Read More
Pale Red Dot: NASA’s MarCO probe snaps first picture of Mars taken by a CubeSat Mars looks like nothing more than a reddish speck in a picture captured by one of NASA’s twin MarCO spacecraft,… Read More
Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon) You don’t have to fly beyond the orbit of Neptune to see our home planet as a Pale Blue Dot.… Read More
Fog and flames: Up-close photos from the Mars InSight mission’s launch pad VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — As thick fog enveloped Space Launch Complex 3 early this morning, the Mars InSight lander… Read More
InSight lander lifts off from California, kicking off quest to get Mars’ inside story NASA’s Mars InSight lander and two piggyback probes were lofted through California’s coastal fog into space before dawn today, beginning… Read More
He shoots, he scores: Basketball star Chris Bosh geeks out over Mars InSight mission While retired NBA All-Star basketball player Chris Bosh plans his next career moves, he and his wife Adrienne are taking… Read More
It’s showtime for launch of NASA’s Mars lnSight lander (and its piggyback probes) NASA’s Mars InSight lander is being prepped for a launch that will send some magical science and engineering toward the… Read More
Make-believe Mars: Get a 360-degree view of the testbed for NASA’s InSight lander When NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars in November, its handlers already will have had lots of practice operating… Read More
NASA gives go-ahead to fix Mars InSight lander’s flaw and launch it in 2018 NASA has approved plans to fix a flaw on its InSight lander in time for a launch to Mars in 2018.… Read More
NASA comes up with plan to fix InSight Mars lander and launch it in 2018 NASA says it’s worked out a plan to redesign a faulty instrument on its InSight lander in time to send… Read More
NASA holds up InSight lander mission to Mars due to leaky seismic instrument NASA says it’s putting off next year’s scheduled launch of its InSight lander mission to Mars until at least 2018,… Read More
