Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

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

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

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

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

The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, caught a glimpse of Curiosity on Feb. 28, 2025, along with the tracks the rover left behind.

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The image, taken on February 28, 2025 (Sol 4,466—a leap day here on Earth!), shows Curiosity as a tiny dark blot at the end of a rover track trail that stretches about 1,050 feet (320 meters ...

In a nutshell NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered large deposits of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, in Gale Crater, offering the strongest in-situ evidence yet of an ancient carbon cycle on Mars.

A surprise discovery in Gale Crater is the component that was missing in the puzzle of Mars 's climate history. There, embedded in the bedrock, the Curiosity rover has identified a mineral called ...

Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. More than 12 years later, the rover has driven over 21 miles (34 kilometers) to ascend Mount Sharp, which is within the crater.

Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. More than 12 years later, the rover has driven over 21 miles (34 kilometers) to ascend Mount Sharp, which is within the crater.