NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope allows scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before.

Though it has been scouring the Martian surface for more than a decade, NASA's Curiosity rover has never been imaged from above within the planet's atmosphere – until now. Far from being camera shy, ...

Since its landing in August 2012, Curiosity has been on a relentless quest to uncover evidence of past microbial life on Mars. The rover's primary mission focuses on analyzing the planet's geology and ...

It’s rocking into spiderwebs. NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped pictures of a long-sought geological structure — dubbed “spiderwebs” — on the Red Planet that indicate a history of flowing water, the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped this view of polygon-patterned bedrock on May 4. Mars is home to a lot of odd-shaped rocks that can look pretty random. Patterns, however, can catch scientists’ eyes.

The Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, stands poised at the launch pad, just over a minute before launch. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover was hoisted atop its Atlas 5 ...

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 ...

On Dec. 20, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen emerged from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building in their bright ...

Curiosity landed on Mars after a harrowing plunge through the atmosphere. Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover, has made a safe landing on the surface of ...