NASA, Curiosity and Mars rover

NASA Curiosity Shares Stunning 360 View of Mars With Strange White Rocks
The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of Mars' watery past.
NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones
The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered "Aeolis Mons," was discovered in the 1970s; cut into its alien landscape is the boulder-packed Gediz Vallis channel, which some scientists believe to be an ancient river bed.
NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
After a year of exploring a mysterious valley on Mars, NASA's intrepid Curiosity rover is headed to a new destination with its own intrigue. The Mini Cooper-sized robotic lab will study an unusual landscape,
NASA's Curiosity Rover About To Enter “Spiderweb” Region Of Mars' Mount Sharp
NASA’s Curiosity rover is ready to move out of the valley of Gediz Vallis and travel slow and steady for a month to a fascinating new area of great interest on Mount Sharp, a 5-kilometer (3-mile) tall mountain at the center of Gale crater.
Curiosity Rover Discovers Pure Sulfur Crystals on Mars in a Historic Breakthrough
NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock. This finding is considered a significant scientific breakthrough, as pure sulfur had never been detected on Mars before.
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Did NASA's Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren't so sure
Could Mars have once hosted life? NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a tantalizing clue, but scientists remain divided ...
A NASA lander may have killed life on Mars, scientist claims — and colleagues took his theory ‘surprisingly well’
Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...
Whoopsie, NASA Might Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the ...
NASA releases stunning images from Mars rover as it searches for evidence life could have existed
NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Shares 360 Panorama of Gediz Vallis Before Moving On
You can see the expanse of white sulfur-bearing rocks in the panorama, along with some other objects of note. A wall of ...
Evidence of hot water that’s essential to life points to Mars’ habitable past
Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars, suggesting the red planet ...
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Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...
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NASA Mars Scientists Ponder 'Peculiar Pale Pebbles' Mystery
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.
NASA Taps SpaceX, Blue Origin for Lunar Habitat and Rover Delivery
The next phase of the Artemis program will see a Japanese rover and living quarters delivered to the lunar surface.
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NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon
NASA wants a lunar habitat on the surface of the moon in less than ten years. NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the ...
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‘Life on Mars?’ Is More Than a David Bowie Song—It’s a Question Humans Keep Asking
Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...