The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Curiosity snaps a selfie on Mars. Note the wear-and-tear on its wheels. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A major software update to the Curiosity rover will allow the robot to drive faster on the ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life—with evidence for ...

Relive Mars rover’s ‘7 minutes of terror’ during landing 12 years ago At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars.

The new flight software (R13) brings about 180 changes to the rover's system, two of which will make the Mars robot drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels.

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet.The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian ...

April 14 (UPI) --NASA has upgraded the software package on the Mars Curiosity rover to help it move more efficiently and reduce wear on its wheels.The update, which required a pause in Curiosity's ...