In an unexpected turn of events, NASA’s Curiosity rover has cracked open a rock on Mars, uncovering something so surprising ...

The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory is slated to launch Saturday (Nov. 26) and drop Curiosity onto the Red Planet's surface in August 2012. The rover's primary task will be to assess whether ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

The rover Curiosity, nearing Mars, has sophisticated tools to help answer the question: Did the Red Planet ever sustain life — and could it today?

Ten years ago today, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover successfully commenced its mission to explore the possibility of life on mars. Here's what it has discovered.

NASA's Curiosity rover found carbon-rich minerals on Mars, revealing the Red Planet may have once had the right conditions to support life. Here's the latest dirt on the red planet.

The Curiosity rover is slowing making its way up Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall mountain on Mars. But heaving up a mountain can be tricky for a little rover.

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 ...