NASA’s Curiosity rover has delivered a rare nighttime glimpse of the Martian surface by illuminating a drill site nicknamed ...

The Curiosity rover made an accidental discovery on Mars – and uncovered a mineral never before found in its pure form on the Red Planet. As the rover rolled over the planet's rocky surface on May 30, ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a knobbly Martian rock that looks strikingly like a piece of ocean coral, a reminder ...

Hungry for fresh photos from Mars, I went digging around the Curiosity mission's raw image archive this weekend and found some amazing portraits of rocks. The rover remains parked next to a ripple of ...

Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world. That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, ...

What can sulfur stones and mysterious patterns on Mars teach us about past liquid water life and the potential for ancient life on the Red Planet? This is what NASA’s Curiosity rover hopes to address ...

Happy 13 th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to ...

WASHINGTON — NASA and the mobile application Foursquare have teamed up to help the public unlock its scientific curiosity with a new rover-themed Curiosity Explorer badge. Users of the Foursquare ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent a year on Mars patiently looking for evidence that Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor may have been hospitable to life once upon a time. It has already found traces of ...

After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA’s Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year ...