New images from NASA’s Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting. With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from the ...

If you take a minute to think about it, it’s weird that we know anything about the Earth’s core. It is necessarily obscured from our view, and the conditions that far down are so hot and so ...

Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet ...

NASA's InSight lander may be relaxing in retirement on Mars, but the robot continues to provide the space agency with valuable information. Recently, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter checked on its ...

The mission may be defunct, but NASA’s InSight Mars lander is still discovering new things about the Red Planet. Scientists poring over data have now made the first direct observations of another ...

On Tuesday, researchers announced a surprising origin of the strongest quake ever recorded on Mars. While exciting, the quake’s discovery was bittersweet. The tremor, strong enough to shatter building ...

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Illustration of the planet Mars covered in water in the past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. Now scientists may have found an unground reservoir. Is there water on Mars? Scientists using ...

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Time is running out for NASA's InSight lander. On the heels of yet another important seismic discovery, the lander's power reserves have dropped to critical levels. InSight, which has been on Mars ...

Data collected on Mars' planetary crust by the InSight lander has led scientists to conclude the planet has stores of liquid water underground, a report revealed today. Analysis led by Vashan Wright, ...

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