Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement. These episodes occurred later than the ...

Robotic Martians can see blue Earth in Mars' sky. The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on the Red Planet, recently snapped an image of Mars' ...

When the Curiosity rover set out last July on its much-anticipated drive to the Mars mission's ultimate destination — the three-mile-high science prize called Mount Sharp — everyone knew the going ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this image from NASA's ...

Since landing on Mars on August 5, 2012, the Curiosity rover has ascended 2,600 feet (800 meters) up the base of Mount Sharp from the floor of Gale Crater. The mountain is a central peak of the crater ...

After two years on the surface of Mars, Curiosity has finally reached its primary science destination: the foot of Mount Sharp, or to give its official name Aeolis Mons. It will now slowly climb Mount ...

A new photo released by NASA looks like a picturesque shot from a hiking vacation in the desert with layers of hills and ridges, a mountain looming in the distance. But it's an image of Mount Sharp on ...

Curiosity is on the move. The plucky Mars rover is on its way to a nearby mountain to look backwards in time. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

Pedal to the metal. Curiosity’s target destination is Mount Sharp, that 3-mile-high mound in the middle of Gale Crater, whose layers of rock could help scientists read each chapter of Mars’ geologic ...

NASA has released a striking 360-degree panorama taken by the Curiosity roverfrom the base of Namib Dune in the Bagnold Dune Fieldon Mars. Although the images were originally captured in 2015, they ...