A NASA rover has landed on Mars on Thursday afternoon in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.

The golf cart-size rover was designed to last only three months, but proved itself to be an unexpected endurance athlete. It traveled more than the distance of a marathon when less than half a ...

Getting rovers to Mars was one of NASA's crowning achievements, but now the space agency is looking for different ways to get samples back to Earth.

NASA’s Opportunity rover began its 15th year on Mars this week, although the intrepid robotic explorer may already be dead.

The $820 million NASA project also includes a twin rover, Opportunity, which is set to arrive on Mars on Jan. 24.

“Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise, the now well-known “six minutes of terror,” and what came close to being a mission ...