When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

The Spirit rover landed on Mars on Jan. 4, 2004. Like its twin, Opportunity, Spirit was assigned an initial mission of only ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 20 years ago, while writing the epilogue to When Corporations Rule the World, I struggled with a troubling experience. When I made the case in public presentations that we humans are on a path ...

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? All three strands are freewheeling and festive, and together, they are an unusual pleasure to read. You can almost feel Bolaño shaking out his limbs.

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 greatest minds and creators have led us through history and have placed upon us a foundation for greatness, an ambition to strive for the best humanity can achieve; yet still we search,” writes ...