NASA’s Curiosity rover ran into one of the strangest problems of its Mars mission after accidentally pulling an entire rock ...

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.

Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary finds and captured some stunning vistas. The latest came in November ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. See a new timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on its ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has finally completed its focused survey of the so-called spiderwebs of Mars, providing us the first close-up look at a massive network of geologic ridges on Mount Sharp that ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity mission.

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered critical new samples, including a series of compounds planetary scientists consider building blocks for the origin of life on Earth ...

Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. A recent photo from NASA, though, gives an idea of what our celestial neighbor would look like under skies that resemble our ...