When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is picking its way through a field of mineral ridges on Mars that rise up to six feet tall, the remains of ancient groundwater channels that once threaded through Gale Crater’s ...

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and—after waving the arm and running the drill a few times—finally detached ...

Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary finds and captured some stunning vistas. The latest came in November ...

Seven organic molecules that have never been seen before on Mars just turned up inside a single rock — and one is a precursor ...

Nasa gives a press conference to discuss the potential of a manned mission to Mars ...