NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of thousands of unexplained honeycomb-shaped polygons spread across Martian rocks, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the first clear evidence of a powerful sandstorm that swept across Mars billions of years ...

The Curiosity rover has been trundling over the red rocks and sand of Mars since August 2012, and it continues to make fascinating discoveries. In fact, it just uncovered evidence of a Martian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Apr 26, 2025, 09:00am EDT NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already raising new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window into the red planet’s ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting a firsthand look at a region on Mars previously only seen from orbit that features a "boxwork" pattern, along with evidence of ancient waterways, including rivers, ...

There might’ve been life on Mars after all. Although it resembles a coral typically found at the bottom of the ocean, it was a piece of rock that a NASA spacecraft — Curiosity rover — recently ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025, the 4,447th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few ...