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

A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

Tens of millions of miles from home, NASA's Curiosity rover has shared what it's grateful for this Thanksgiving ...

There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet.

In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would ...

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

The Viking 1 mission ended in November 1982 after a faulty command triggered a loss of contact. In the time since NASA hasn’t ended its search for life on the Red Planet. Studies by the space agency ...

NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...

The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...