NASA's Curiosity rover was built for a 2-year Mars mission. Nearly 14 years later, it is still making history in Gale Crater.

NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed an unusual honeycomb-like pattern on Mars. This striking network of polygon-shaped ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached a new geological transition zone on Mars, revealing unusual striped rock formations that ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity marks a full week on the Red Planet today (Aug. 13), and it's celebrating with a little rest and relaxation. The 1-ton rover began beaming home photos and testing out its ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Over the years, the rover ...

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on Mars ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations—low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...