When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mars has a new robotic inhabitant on its surface. At 2:54 p.m. ET today (Nov. 26), NASA mission ...

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As the power available to NASA’s InSight Mars lander diminishes by the day, the spacecraft’s team has revised the mission’s timeline in order to maximize the science they can conduct. The lander was ...

NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California were unable ...

The seismometer might keep working through September. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's InSight mission is working to ...

NASA’s InSight lander has endured almost seven months in space, traveling over 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) in a carefully calculated path from Earth to Mars. After its lengthy journey, ...

NASA is readying the InSight lander for launch in 2016 that will measure geologic data from below the surface of Mars so that scientists can better understand the origins of our solar system’s planets ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Monday (Nov. 26), Mars fans around the globe will watch eagerly to see NASA land a new mission ...

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