Full coverage: Curiosity on Mars
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The rover Curiosity, nearing Mars, has sophisticated tools to help answer the question: Did the Red Planet ever sustain life — and could it today?
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Curiosity drills into an ancient lake to discover signs that Gale Crater was once wet and potentially Earth-like. ‘It’s a great leap forward,’ one scientist says.
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Gazing up at the Red Planet’s pair of moons, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has caught two famous asteroids zipping across the night sky – marking the first time such space rocks have ever been caught on camera from the Martian surface.
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His purpose: To make sure the rover team was prepared to deal with space junk, lost signals and any other challenges he could think up.
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What’s it like to be the Curiosity Rover on Mars? Watch this video and you’ll find out.
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Before going incommunicado behind the Sun for a month, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent Earth evidence that the Red Planet has lost much of its original atmosphere.
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The most high-fidelity search for methane on Mars has turned up none, a result that significantly reduces the chances of finding microbial life on the Red Planet.
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been sending back images since landing on the Red Planet in August 2012.
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A JPL scientist’s family joins him on his mission to live sol by sol - and discovers a new sort of life around Los Angeles.
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NASA released footage of the first double lunar eclipse viewed from Mars rover Curiosity.
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On the first anniversary of NASA’s rover Curiosity’s touchdown in Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory lead scientist John Grotzinger says the team has a lot to be thankful for — and much more to look forward to.
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Recent discoveries by NASA’s Curiosity rover show Mars to be more complex than had been known, with water-embedded dust covering its surface and a mature, almost Earthlike, geology.
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On the 529th day of Curiosity’s journey on Mars, the rover turned its cameras to the skies and sent back this humbling image of Earth and our moon.
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Perhaps it was only a matter of time before NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover got its own official Lego avatar.
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When Curiosity nailed its picture-perfect touchdown on Mars last year, the mission control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted into cheers and high-fives.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, charged with looking for past life on the planet, probably won’t be finding any signs of current – or even recent – activity, if the Curiosity rover’s discoveries are any indication.
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UFO watchers’ eyes were set ablaze recently by reports of what looked like a stony rodent lurking among the rocks on Mars.
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Unimpressed by Michael Jackson’s iconic moonwalk? How about a “Marswalk”?
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Think those tools aboard NASA’s rover Curiosity are only good for sniffing out argon isotopes and drilling into mysterious rocks?
