Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet ...

inSight should touch down on Mars on Monday, and NASA has detailed how it'll monitor the landing from 91 million miles away on Earth. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

“If Elysium Planitia were a salad, it would consist of romaine lettuce and kale — no dressing,” said InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...

Cheers erupted Monday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which operates the spacecraft, when InSight sent back acknowledgment of its safe arrival on Mars. Cheers erupted Monday ...

Just before this historic landing join experts from NASA to discuss Insight's landing, and the science that will go on after touchdown.

This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. NASA/JPL-Caltech That wasn’t quite the end of the story for InSight, though, as it is still ...