The Mars rover Spirit is keeping scientists' spirits up by doing some science while it is stuck in soft soil on the red planet. The rover has been immobile, trapped hub-deep since May 6. Engineers ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been a watershed year of science for the NASA Mars rover Spirit, a six-wheeled automaton ...

Just past the halfway point of its three-month prime mission, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has achieved several scientific firsts, but may still have its best “Eureka!” moments in front of it.

The Spirit rover, launched in 2004, significantly exceeded its planned 90-sol mission, operating for over five years on Mars within Gusev Crater. Key scientific discoveries included evidence of past ...

It's fitting that Roberto Bolaño's body of work has become, for readers, a treasure hunt in a labyrinth. The sprawling novels he published in his lifetime, including the masterful tome The Savage ...

The Mars rover Spirit is putting down roots. After months of trying to wiggle the rover out of a sand trap on Mars, the NASA probe remains firmly entrenched in the soft soil inside a small crater. So ...

In his latest book, In the Beginning Was the Spirit, Sacred Heart Missionary Fr. Diarmuid O’Murchu convenes a virtual dialogue among science, religion and indigenous spirituality. O’Murchu wants to ...

Guitarist / composer Tom Guarna uses geometric concepts and patterns as a starting point on Spirit Science, his eighth album as leader, pairing its mathematical precision with spiritual awareness to ...