LOS ANGELES - The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars rover Spirit is fading after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth. Despite the dismal outlook, NASA will make a last-ditch ...

Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration. Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed ...

LOS ANGELES - Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA's twin Mars rovers. Just weeks after landing in a Martian crater in 2004, it went haywire and transmitted gibberish to Earth. Engineers ...

"Spirit went into a deep sleep," said Callas, who said the rover will be remembered for demystifying Mars to the masses. Receive Daily Headlines FREESign up today! When the rover team gets together ...

NASA’s Spirit rover landed on Mars in 2004 and was designed to operate for just 90 days. Instead, it explored the Martian ...

When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel—as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009—Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 3, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin ...

The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years and has been incommunicado since March. This double dose of bad luck hangs over the scrappy spacecraft, ...

Researchers using Spirit's toolkit of geological instruments from early January into April read the record from rocks and soils in the rover's landing area and found a history of volcanic ...