NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity celebrates its ninth anniversary on Mars today. When it landed in 2004, NASA said it would be pleased if the rover lasted 90 Martian days. It's survived 3,200.

NASA's six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what was billed as a 90-day mission. The plucky robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it.

NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover has gone into a self-imposed standby mode on the Red Planet, the robot's handlers say. Mission controllers for Opportunity, which landed on Mars in January ...

The Mars rover Opportunity is dead after a record-setting 15-year run, but its memory – and scientific discoveries – live on. NASA announced Wednesday that the Mars rover was deemed dead after ...

Mars Rover Opportunity Emerges From Winter Doldrums, Gets Back On Move : The Two-Way With the darkest days of the Martian winter now over, NASA took its Opportunity Mars Rover for a drive this week.

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

On Feb. 13, 2019 at 2 p.m. ET, NASA announced that the long-lived Opportunity rover was dead. It will spend the next millennia collecting dust on Mars.

The Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars in January 2004 along with its twin, Spirit, is currenlty studying clay deposits on the rim of the Red Planet's Endeavour Crater.

The Opportunity Mars rover has explored Endeavour Crater’s western rim (pictured here) since 2011, including Cape Tribulation starting in 2014. The image, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance ...

I’m sorry, I just found out the last message sent by the Mars rover was “my battery is low and it is getting dark,” so now I have to spend the rest of the day watching WALL-E and sobbing.

Opportunity, the little rover that could, has broken a 41-year-old driving distance record that’s out of this world. The decade-old NASA Mars rover has crossed the 25-mile mark, surpassing the ...

The Mars 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 over.