A successful drive across the Martian landscape has placed NASA’s Curiosity rover in what mission scientists describe as one ...

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

It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent the past 13 years drilling through samples on Mars, and one rock ...

Curiosity found organic molecules on Mars that were so compelling that scientists used a rare process to analyze them.

A stone in your shoe is a chore on Earth, but a Martian boulder stuck on your robot on the Red Planet makes for an out-of-this-world problem. NASA's space scientists had a challenge when a large rock ...

After a daredevil landing on Mars this week, NASA's new rover Curiosity is gearing up for the long haul on the Red Planet. But the rover still has time to star in a new National Geographic documentary ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...