NASA Curiosity Rover's shocking discovery will unravel many secrets about Mars. NASA has released images of a rock on Mars that resembles coral. The Curiosity rover spotted the object inside Gale ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the fragile ...

Sometimes, the greatest scientific discoveries happen by complete accident, and an inadvertent move by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover last year may have uncovered one of the red planet's most important ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a sweeping panorama of Mars’ Gale Crater under exceptionally favorable viewing conditions, offering one of the clearest looks yet at the vast Martian basin.

The Curiosity Mars rover photographed more rocks that are shaped like coral on the red planet's surface. Researchers said the rocks were evidence that at one point water was on Mars. The Curiosity ...

Close-up images of a region of Mars scientists had previously only seen from orbit have revealed “dramatic evidence” of where water once flowed on the Red Planet. The new images taken by NASA’s ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

Despite being thinner and drier than Earth's atmosphere, Mars's atmosphere contains clouds composed of tiny water ice crystals. And just as on Earth, these clouds influence the planet's climate.

Curiosity landed on Mars after a harrowing plunge through the atmosphere. Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover, has made a safe landing on the surface of ...

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 ...