Getty Image NASA made history on Monday with what it is calling a “Wright brothers moment.” The federal government agency responsible for aeronautics and space research completed the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter hovering above the

Getty Image In case you’ve been living under a space rock, NASA landed a rover on Mars last week. The USA’s mission is seen as a first step toward bringing samples of the Martian surface back to Earth with a larger goal of determining whether life might be sustainable on the planet. After

Author: Meghan Bartels / Source: Space.com (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA has given up trying to make contact with its long-silent Opportunity rover on Mars, but the loss of the 15-year resident doesn’t spell the end of Mars rovers. Opportunity’s successor, the Curiosity rover, is still

Unfortunately, all good things eventually come to an end, as Nelly Furtado famously declared. Today we say goodbye to one of the biggest leaps in human history. We bid a farewell to NASA’s Opportunity rover, abandoned and alone around 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away from our planet.

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News For the first time, a Mars rover has measured the mass of the rocks beneath its wheels. By taking gravity measurements as it climbed a Martian mountain, Curiosity discovered something surprising: Mount Sharp appears to have been built in two phases —