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

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has already achieved its initial mission, proving that the Red Planet could have once sustained life, but one scientist says its greatest accomplishments could be in ...

Five years after touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover mission is still making big discoveries. On the night of Aug. 5, 2012, the car-size robot aced a dramatic and harrowing landing ...

Jennifer Trosper, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is part of a small group of people who have worked on all five NASA Mars rovers. Here she is in 2021 with a model of Perseverance.

Curiosity’s scientific mission is to explore Gale crater and figure out if Mars ever was capable of supporting life, Ashwin Vasavada, NASA’s MSL-Curiosity rover Project Scientist told me.

PASADENA, Calif. — Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheel robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job. Mars rovers chalk up 5 years — and both ...

Since its harrowing touchdown on Mars a year ago in Gale crater on August 5, 2012, PDT (August 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has been one busy explorer—returning more than 190 gigabits of data and ...

The Curiosity rover has been carrying out its mission on Mars for many years, and it's made some pretty cool discoveries.

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The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

December 29, 2008. NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.