NASA's $850 million InSight Lander is the first designed to study the interior structure of Mars. Until now, NASA's landers mainly focused on exploring Mars' surface for signs of potential life.

Your job might be tough, but spare a thought for any of the engineers involved in the Mars InSight lander mission when they learned that one of the flagship instruments aboard the lander ...

Artwork: It takes 6.5 minutes to go from the top of the atmosphere to the surface Prof Tom Pike from Imperial College London is part of the science team on the US-led InSight mission to Mars.

NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to gently touchdown on Mars’ Elysium Planitia. The landing came after a flawless ...

The American space agency has released a video describing the perilous journey its InSight probe will make to the surface of Mars later this month. Fronted by Rob Manning, the chief engineer at ...

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NASA 's $813 million InSight mission is coming to an early end on Mars. InSight's power supply has dwindled as layers of dust have settled on its solar panels and stuck there. Today, it produces ...

When NASA's InSight Mars Lander survived the "seven minutes of terror" and made its triumphant landing on Mars Monday afternoon, some of its success was owed to the software running inside.

Dr. Root indicated that the new data from the InSight mission prompts a reevaluation of how Olympus Mons and its surrounding area are supported. It suggests that Mars might still be experiencing ...