NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, a car-size rover, will launch toward Mars in November 2011. Take a photo tour of the Curiosity rover before its packed for Mars.

NASA's new Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, is gearing up for its launch on Nov. 25. The rover will search for signs that Mars was once habitable.

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

NASA's intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously. Yep, that's right. A car-sized rover can select a ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.