The Curiosity rover made an accidental discovery on Mars – and uncovered a mineral never before found in its pure form on the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it’s been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it’s traversed more than 20 miles of the ...

Have you seen the weird “alien doorway” on Mars image that went viral on social media? It was sent back by NASA’s Curiosity rover on May 7, 2022 as it traveled through the red planet’s ...

I’m one of a team of more than 500 travelers exploring Mars from California with the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another planet. As I write, Curiosity is pounding a hole into a rock in ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover reveals stunning new images of another world. Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet in August 2012. As Curiosity makes ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars. As shown in the imagery below, the NASA robot investigated dried-up lake beds and captured views of ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. Future human explorers on Mars may one day gaze at the red planet’s clouds.

Nasa's Mars rover has made its "most unexpected" discovery since it landed on the red planet in 2012: rocks made of sulphur. On 30 May, the Curiosity rover "happened to drive over a rock and crack ...

Scroll down for video The resulting image reveals Curiosity in high definition surrounded by the bleak and desert like landscape in the Pahrump Hills within the enormous Gale crater on Mars.

We have spotted tantalising glimpses of methane on Mars a few times over the years, but it has been difficult to confirm the detections with other instruments. In 2019, Curiosity detected the ...

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