Mars has long looked like a dead world, but Curiosity’s decade of fieldwork has steadily revealed a planet that once offered ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window into the red planet’s past. The newly detected compounds suggest complex organic chemistry ...

For years, scientists have debated how long Mars could have supported life. While it’s been well-established that the planet ...

This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane. These are the largest organic molecules discovered on Mars to date. NASA/Dan Gallagher Despite its freezing ...

On August 8, 2025, NASA's Curiosity rover found itself at the intersection of three ridges found on the Martian landscape. This "peace sign" shape, as called by NASA engineers, is part of a larger ...

NASA's Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a months-long trek to a formation called the boxwork, a set of weblike patterns on Mars's surface that stretches for miles. It will ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have uncovered evidence that water once flowed beneath Martian sand dunes — suggesting that the Red Planet may have once had conditions capable of supporting life. Scienti ...

Gediz Vallis, some scientists believe, used to be filled with running water on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Currently in ...

Data from NASA's Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the distant past due to a changing climate that caused the surface water to ...

After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA’s Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year ...

Pedal to the metal. Curiosity’s target destination is Mount Sharp, that 3-mile-high mound in the middle of Gale Crater, whose layers of rock could help scientists read each chapter of Mars’ geologic ...