After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer ...

The Mars rover Spirit is still operational, but NASA scientists will stop trying to free it from a sandtrap and focus on the rover's survival and ability to conduct experiments where it's stuck.

After six highly successful years of exploring the red sands of Mars, NASA’s rover Spirit will rove no more. With its six wheels stuck in powdery sand and two wheels no longer working at all ...

NASA's Mars rover Spirit may be dead, but it is far from forgotten. The golf-cart-size robot hasn't communicated with Earth since March 2010, and NASA announced Tuesday (May 24) that it will stop ...

Spirit's operators had held out hope that the rover would rouse itself this month, as the sunshine strengthened at its locale. But the solar energy available to Spirit peaked around March 10, and ...

Instead, NASA’s Spirit rover traveled nearly five miles over five years, finding geological evidence that the Red Planet had once been warm and wet enough to have harbored life.

NASA said today it would stop trying to reach the Mars rover Spirit, which landed on Mars in 2004 and lasted until its radio went silent in 2010. Mission managers said they had expected it only to ...

In January 2010, NASA declared Spirit’s roving mission over and rededicated it as a stationary science outpost. The trapped Spirit rover went silent March 22, 2010, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...