The team that developed and operated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission will receive the 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation. + Read more(February 19)
NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter. + Read more(February 10)
About half a year before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data. + Read more(February 05)
This image, taken on December 21, shows the Phoenix Mars Lander during the last waning days of northern hemisphere summer. This is the first image targeted to the lander since it ceased activity. + Read more(January 02)
