The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian soil ...

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For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red Planet may have supported life. Now, new research based on an old rock ...

PASADENA, Calif. The robotic explorer Curiosity s daring plunge through the pink skies of Mars was more than perfect. It landed with spectacular style, said a NASA scientist, describing the ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

With its hills and distant mountains, the landscape seems somehow familiar yet at the same time eerily alien. The striking image was captured just recently by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it continues ...

NASA's Martian explorer Curiosity has found yet another mystery on the rocky road towards Mars' boxwork region. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Aliens aren't terraforming Mars, but one of NASA's rovers ...

The Curiosity rover is stopping its sampling of soil from the surface of Mars because of a shiny object noticed on the ground. A photo released by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Curiosity's ...

On the brink of 4600 Sols of a profoundly impactful life, NASA's long lived Opportunity rover celebrates the Christmas/New Year's holiday season on Mars marching relentlessly towards an ancient water ...