This article was written by CNET News.com's Jennifer Guevin. One of NASA's seemingly immortal Mars rovers might soon be at the end of its days. The Spirit rover had been cruising around the Red Planet ...

NASA's Spirit rover looks like it is going to fade away due to the harsh Martian winter. The space agency said it has ended attempts to gain contact with the Spirit rover. According to NASA, the ...

Efforts to free the stuck Spirit rover on Mars have been dragging on since May and a NASA official said Sept. 14 the robot may never get free. “We are proceeding very cautiously and exploring all ...

This story was updated at 7:24 p.m. ET. When there's no answer, again and again, at some point you have to stop calling. NASA announced Tuesday (May 24) that it will cease its daily attempts to ...

SEATTLE — It has been more than a year since NASA’s Mars rover Spirit last contacted Earth, and the odds that the immobilized robot will ever wake up get smaller by the day. Still, NASA engineers have ...

This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on ...

[Photo: NASA] NASA is ending attempts to contact the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after communications stopped on March 22, 2010. For the past 10 months, NASA has been pinging the rover ...

Los Angeles -- Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA's twin Mars rovers. Just weeks after landing in a Martian crater in 2004, it went haywire and transmitted gibberish to Earth. Engineers ...

Twelve days after it bounced to a landing on the barren plain of Gusev Crater, NASA’s Spirit rover has rolled off its lander onto the red Martian soil to begin its search for signs of water -- and ...

Recently, the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" has been sleeping through work shifts and suffering from bouts of amnesia. John Callas, rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

The malfunctioning of NASA’s Spirit rover on Mars was apparently caused by a memory shortage that sent the craft into an endless cycle of computer reboots, officials at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion ...

After more than six years touring the Red Planet, the spunky little research rover may finally have met its nemesis: a sand trap. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing the ...