NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

If you answered, "NASA's Spirit Rover," pat yourself on the back. Spirit, along with its twin rover Opportunity, was only supposed to provide three months of Martian exploration. Incredibly ...

"The Spirit Rover, for example, is right next to an encroaching dune field that will eventually bury it," he said. "Once it's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

This has happened before: The Mars rover Spirit in 2010 got stuck in soft sand one day and never escaped. Like its predecessor and nearly identical twin Curiosity, which is still exploring a ...

Getting the rover moving is still the first priority, NASA stated. In the past couple weeks, Spirit’s right-front wheel, which had stopped operating in March 2006, showed signs of life this week by ...