The Opportunity rover is dead, at age 15. After spending over 5,000 Martian days rumbling through the inhospitable red desert planet, NASA acknowledged on Wednesday that its sun-powered exploration ...

It's time say goodbye to the Opportunity rover. The rover's team made its last attempt to contact Opportunity on Tuesday night, and it went unanswered. On Wednesday, NASA confirmed that the mission is ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover was the interplanetary version of the little engine that could; unfortunately, it couldn’t. The American space agency announced on Wednesday the end of its record-setting ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been on Mars since January 2004, but its mission is threatened by budget cuts. Credit: NASA/JPL illustration WASHINGTON — NASA announced Feb. 13 that it ...

One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...

Opportunity has finally run out of, well, opportunities. After weeks of trying to revive the veteran Mars rover in the wake of a blinding dust storm, NASA has given up on ever hearing from it again.

NASA's unwavering commitment to exploring the stars has led to incredible insight into the stars. In 1997, NASA landed their first rover on our planetary neighbour Mars. Sojourner became the first ...

NASA launched two Mars rovers in 2003, named Spirit and Opportunity. Both rovers far exceeded their original mission durations of 90 Martian days. Spirit stopped communicating in 2010. Opportunity was ...

More than 1,000 commands had been sent since the golf-cart sized Opportunity rover fell silent on June 10, 2018, the victim of a historic global storm which engulfed Mars. NASA declared the mission ...

2004-01-23T12:06:38-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgOfficials talked to reporters about the science mission of the Mars Exploration ...

One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...