"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover, one of the most successful interplanetary missions in history, came to a dramatic and poignant end in 2019, after 15 years of groundbreaking exploration on Mars. The rover’s ...

Sol 3000 for the Opportunity rover - NASA made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars. The rover found a vein in the soil, named ...

NASA had hoped that once the skies cleared, the rover would revive and continue its work. Last fall, the space agency announced it would spend just a month trying to reconnect with Opportunity.

On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest road trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...

After 15 years and a journey of over 140 million miles, NASA said Wednesday that the Cornell-led Opportunity Rover had reached its final resting place: a dusty, frigid valley on Mars. From its Jet ...

Perseverance's advanced self-driving software enables it to process and analyse images on the move, allowing for longer daily ...

A massive Martian dust storm knocked out communication with NASA’s Opportunity rover in early June, and now, as the dust settles and the rover remains unresponsive, NASA is forced to reconsider ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

The new effort will be tried for several weeks, NASA said. Opportunity, and its twin rover, Spirit, both bounced to safe air bag-cocooned landings on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004.