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 Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket today to investigate whether Mars is, or ever was, habitable to microbial life.

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

The day after Thanksgiving may be “Black Friday” for American stores and shoppers, but this year, it’s a red letter day for scientists in Pasadena, as Saturday is blast-off for the next Mars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.