(CNN) -- NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet's surface on the first day of its three-month mission "to taste and sniff the northern polar site's soil and ice," the space ...

like the Spirit and Opportunity rovers and the Phoenix lander. "It feels a little bittersweet to look at InSight now. It was a successful mission that produced lots of great science. Of course ...

Learn more. When NASA shot its Phoenix lander into space in August of 2007, it wasn’t expecting it to last very long. The robotic spacecraft touched down on Mars in May of 2008 and began a three ...

(CNN) -- The first pictures from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see.

There is a robotic moon landing happening Thursday. If this feels like déjà vu, it's because a separate lunar lander ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.

They thus determined that the sample must have been contaminated by materials carried by the lander from Earth. However, in 2008, the Phoenix lander found chlorine on Mars as well. So did two ...

While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon ...

Sure, there was a bit of a rocky start when baking the soil in the Phoenix Lander's onboard observation oven didn't go quite as planned, but the mission seems to be proceeding smoothly now.