NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its ...

For the past several weeks, NASA’s InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec. 19. Now it’s reached another milestone by placing a domed shield ...

Here's one of the cool things you learn when you land a seismometer on another planet: Mars's days are getting shorter. Or to ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings ...

InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, was a stationary lander. But it collected unprecedented data about the thickness of the red planet’s ...

MARS -- NASA released images on Monday showing what scientists are calling a "monster earthquake" on Mars. The agency says the quake shook the planet Mars on May 4, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is getting ready to send a landing probe to Mars for the first since the Curiosity rover arrived at the Red Planet in 2012. On Wednesday, the probe known as ...

While InSight’s one seismometer gathered crucial data, spreading them out across Mars would reveal variations within the planet’s interior and provide a greater window into its diverse and complex ...