More than a decade after landing in Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered something unexpected in the Martian ...

The Curiosity rover is travelling along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp (Mars), a large mountain in the center of Gale Crater on Mars.

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.

There might’ve been life on Mars after all. Although it resembles a coral typically found at the bottom of the ocean, it was a piece of rock that a NASA spacecraft — Curiosity rover — recently ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellow crystals that were revealed after NASA’s Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open A rock on Mars spilled a ...

Happy 13 th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Curiosity took its first test drive around the gravel-strewn Martian terrain Wednesday, preparation for the ultimate road trip to find out if the red planet’s environment could have ...

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