Launched in 2003, Opportunity was sent to Mars to look for ancient water, and during its almost 15-year mission, the rover traversed more than 28 miles of the red planet's surface. The rover ...

The American space agency says it is concerned but hopeful that its veteran robot rover on Mars can survive a big dust storm on the planet. The 15-year-old vehicle, known as Opportunity ...

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has now traversed 25.01 miles on the surface of the Red Planet, setting a new record for off-Earth distance traveled. More than four years after its expected demise ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA compiled images from hazard-avoidance cameras on its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between January 2004 and April 2015. The footage shows the rover's-eye ...

Opportunity’s mission on Mars led to groundbreaking discoveries, but none stranger than what it found in 2013: a vein-like object hidden in the Martian surface. What does this bizarre structure ...

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Mars rover Opportunity has found evidence that the Red Planet was once wet enough for life to exist there, Nasa said. But the robot has not found any direct traces of living organisms, scientists ...

Shutterstock Engineers follow events at Mars with a time lag of many minutes The landing architecture was a familiar one. The rover was encased ... Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles from ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April ... as well as China’s Zhurong rover, which is now exploring Utopia Planitia. NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working years ago.