Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.

NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

In the days and hours leading up to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, Adam Steltzner, a key figure behind that globally anticipated event, was often seen on TV explaining the physics of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a panoramic image of Mars that resembles an Earthly sunset. For over a decade, the Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for signs of past life. The rover took the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary ...

Steltzner and his team brainstormed for three days in 2003. Earlier that year, NASA had launched two other Mars rovers—Spirit and Opportunity—each weighing 400 pounds. JPL engineers had encased the ...