When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that ...

PASADENA, California (Reuters) - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, nicknamed Curiosity, is scheduled to reach the Red Planet on Sunday at 10:31 p.m. Pacific time (1:31 a.m. EDT Monday/0531 GMT) on an ...

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

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On Earth, these kinds of markings are usually linked to microbial life. Could this be true for Mars?

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

NASA's veteran Mars Odyssey spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet is out of the woods after a glitch stalled the probe's science operations earlier this month. The 11 year-old orbiter went into ...

Ben Tutolo, associate professor in the Department of Earth, Energy and Environment in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, is the lead researcher on a paper about Mars. Tutolo is a ...

Minerals are like time capsules. Minerals are defined by chemical composition and crystal structure, characteristics that are achieved under specific environmental conditions. Now, researchers have ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing scientists closer to an answer on whether the red planet was ever capable of supporting life. Lead ...