Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com The mysterious Martian mountain that beckons NASA's Curiosity rover was likely built primarily by wind rather than water, as ...

Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has analyzed its 12th drilled sample of Mars. This sample came from mudstone bedrock, which the rover resumed climbing in late May after six months studying other features.

The latest panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover turns Mount Sharp from a distant backdrop into an overwhelming, all-encompassing landscape, the kind of view that makes Gale Crater feel like a ...

This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue but shows the terrain as ...

Curiosity, the big rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, will land in August 2012 near the foot of a mountain inside Gale Crater. One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s ...