The Spirit rover, launched in 2004, significantly exceeded its planned 90-sol mission, operating for over five years on Mars within Gusev Crater. Key scientific discoveries included evidence of past ...

The Mars rover Spirit is keeping scientists' spirits up by doing some science while it is stuck in soft soil on the red planet. The rover has been immobile, trapped hub-deep since May 6. Engineers ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been a watershed year of science for the NASA Mars rover Spirit, a six-wheeled automaton ...

It was a cold night in Pasadena when NASA’s rover Spirit landed on Mars. But if tension could generate heat, we would have been perspiring. On a good day, getting to Mars is a crapshoot. Over the ...

In his latest book, In the Beginning Was the Spirit, Sacred Heart Missionary Fr. Diarmuid O’Murchu convenes a virtual dialogue among science, religion and indigenous spirituality. O’Murchu wants to ...