Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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NASA just showed us all how to land on Mars... again. At about 2:54 p.m. ET, mission controllers on Earth got word that the space agency's InSight lander -- designed to study the red planet's ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s retired InSight Mars lander has been spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in a recent image taken on October 23, 2024. The image, captured using the HiRISE camera, shows dust ...

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