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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The probe has already started sending back photos from the red planet, and will soon begin monitoring seismic activity. After Hurtling Through Space For 6 Months, NASA's InSight Makes Landing On Mars ...

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