No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 300 million miles (482 million kilometers). But part of its mission is to inform efforts to one day send ...

The landing InSight robotically guided itself through the landing. The landing itself is a tricky maneuver. NASA engineers don't call it " seven minutes of terro r" for nothing. In less time than it ...

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 ...