The rover has climbed a little over 1,100 feet since it landed in 2012. Plans are for the rover to …

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were surprised by curious onlookers, toxic fumes, glitchy ta…

When you live and work in space, as astronauts do, the sensation of awe and wonder at how finite an…

At times, photos of the surface of Mars depict the prototypical idea of the red planet: rocky, dry,…

Damage seen in a more recent photo of the same wheel taken on Nov. 30 has raised more concern. "The…

During the trip and at the Murray Foundation, scientists hope to find more rocks like the one below…

"The world is targeting the South Pole. It's not just India — the Americans, the Russians,…

"Earth ... is a big planet that holds a lot of heat, a lot of energy, and it's been very geological…

"All of our past missions have really been surface missions that have characterized the surface, th…

Curiosity will drive up to the rock within the next few days. The first powdered samples that the r…

Mars rover Curiosity has created history by completing an entire Martian year (687 days) on the pla…

As Lakadawalla points out on her blog, Curiosity doesn't need perfectly round wheels to move around…

"Curiosity is not a life-detection mission, but is there to assess the habitability of the Red Plan…

Previous atmospheric measurements from the Viking lander missions in the 1970s were too crude to pr…

Scientists have learned from Curiosity that Mars once had an environment that was potentially habit…

Harvard sleep scientist Steven Lockley says NASA simply doesn't take human factors as seriously as …

The Curiosity rover has snapped images of a transparent object on the Martian surface that readers …

Radiation is a related issue: Many planets and moons whip up powerful electromagnetic fields, which…

"We didn't really start seeing craters until the image released today - the pictures simply weren't…

India's space mission has been criticized as being a waste of resources in a country where a huge p…