You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV screen and wondering: Could something have lived there once? Now, after ...

Strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars may reveal groundwater lasted longer than scientists thought.

Like most humans on Earth this past week, NASA’s Curiosity rover took a vacation of itself a few weeks ago. After soaking up the Martian scenery, it beamed back holiday videos from its cameras. On ...

NASA’s Curiosity has explored a peculiar terrain on Mars that has no such equivalent on Earth. Seen from space, this ...

NASA's Curiosity rover recently basked in a classic Red Planet vista as a colder season approaches. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS At first glance, this view may look like a vista from a bluff in ...

For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

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 ...

A short, low resolution video captured the final minutes of Mars rover Curiosity’s descent onto the planet. At the beginning of the clip the 15-foot wide heat shield can be seen separating from the ...

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, ...

Mars fans dream of a day when astronauts land on the red planet and, perhaps, even stay for a while. Until then, humanity’s robotic emissaries are our eyes on Mars. You can’t visit Mars in person (yet ...