Data from NASA's Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals Mars' ancient climate, and the planet's shift from a habitable environment to a harsh, ...

Curiosity’s exploration of Gale crater on Mars has uncovered new evidence about the planet’s climate evolution. By studying ...

Mars is generally regarded as a place that can't support life, but new research sheds light on how the Red Planet evolved ...

At one point, the team steered Curiosity away from more treacherous terrain in favor of smoother paths to prolong the lifespan of its wheels. Then, in 2017, JPL engineers uploaded new software to ...

It was sent back by NASA’s Curiosity rover on May 7, 2022 as it traveled through the red planet’s Mount Sharp region. It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting ...

According to NASA, the discovery by Curiosity was made using its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Tunable Laser Spectrometer ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least ...

A photo recently beamed to Earth by NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover shows significant damage to its middle right wheel, but the vehicle is still able to traverse the red planet’s rocky terrain ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars — enough time, by Sam Altman's reckoning, for the emergence of superintelligent AI. It set its six wheels ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life—with evidence for ...