The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will soon race over the surface of the Red Planet more quickly thanks to a new upgrade. The software update aboard the Curiosity rover, completed on April 7, brings ...

The huge NASA rover slated to land on Mars Sunday night (Aug. 5) is expected to give scientists and laypeople alike some amazing views of the Red Planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover, the heart of ...

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped pictures of a long-sought geological structure — dubbed “spiderwebs” — on the Red Planet that indicate a history of flowing water, the space agency announced.

In total, Curiosity has fired its laser -- which is part of the rover's ChemCam instrument -- more than 350,000 times at about 10,000 targets, NASA said.

The rover launched in 2011 and made it to the surface about a year later in 2012. Its goal on Mars is to "Determine if Mars was ever able to support microbial life," according to NASA.

The Curiosity rover can use artificial intelligence to point a laser. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. It takes up to 24 minutes for a signal to travel between Earth and Mars.If you’re a Mars rover ...

Because Curiosity weighs nearly a ton, engineers created a more controlled way to set the rover down. The last Mars rovers, twins Spirit and Opportunity, were cocooned in air bags and bounced to a ...

NASA has just announced new plans for additional Mars missions, building on its ongoing Curiosity rover expedition. The US space agency will send a new “robotic science rover” to the Red ...