All systems appear go for the Saturday launch of NASA's next Mars rover, officials announced Wednesday. The car-size Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory ...

Floods and Avalanches. Spotted from space years before Curiosity’s launch, Gediz Vallis channel is one of the primary reasons the science team wanted to visit this part of Mars.

The Mars exploring Curiosity rover has discovered convincing evidence of ancient groundwater. NASA revealed on Monday that ...

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

When did Curiosity and Perseverance rovers launch? The Curiosity rover began its voyage to Mars in November 2011 during a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

April 14 (UPI) --NASA has upgraded the software package on the Mars Curiosity rover to help it move more efficiently and reduce wear on its wheels.The update, which required a pause in Curiosity's ...

NASA says Curiosity’s nuclear power source still has plenty of juice for the rover to continue working well into the future, so we can expect plenty of additional discoveries while we wait for ...

On the ground, a hardy six-wheeled rover named Curiosity observed its 10th anniversary on the Red Planet this summer. ... Curiosity’s three-week launch window opened Nov. 25, 2011.

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.