The American space agency remains the only organization to ever successfully land a rover or lander on Mars ... its landing legs. Once it got close enough to the ground, InSight's 12 engines ...

NASA's InSight lander has taken what may be its last photograph of Mars, approaching its inevitable death with peaceful acceptance. "My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can ...

NASA's $850 million InSight Lander is the first designed to study the interior structure of Mars. Until now, NASA's landers mainly focused on exploring Mars' surface for signs of potential life.

The InSight lander has successfully touched down on Mars, beginning a two-year mission to peer deep inside the red planet's interior. Technicians and engineers inspect the heat shield for the ...

N ASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image ...

NASA’s Insight lander spent four years on the surface of Mars, uncovering secrets of the planet’s interior, but it eventually succumbed to the most martian of environmental threats ...

and provided to NASA for use on the InSight lander. The small, 35 centimeter-long probe was designed to burrow as deep as 5 meters (16 feet) below the surface of Mars while connected to a tether ...

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NASA’s InSight Mars lander is ready for the final processing sprint before its launch opportunity opens in a month’s time. NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin held a media day for the ...

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquired this image of the area in front of the lander using its lander-mounted, Instrument Context Camera (ICC).

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...