While it has enabled many exciting discoveries, the Curiosity Rover has also encountered its share of setbacks. The latest ...

While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover detected more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rock inside Gale ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spent more than 13 years exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old Gale crater, slowly climbing a central mound known as Mount Sharp. Satellite data suggest this formation may ...

The team recorded a total of 478 different organisms, including comb jellies, arrowworms, snailfish and shrimp. In one clip, ...

Curiosity's drill entering the rock nicknamed Atacama. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The Curiosity rover has revealed many surprises on ...

Historic organic find: Curiosity identified 21 organic molecules in a 2020 rock sample, seven of them new to Mars, including a nitrogen heterocycle linked to DNA and RNA chemistry. Ancient lakebed ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

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.

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.