The findings have been published in the journal Science. Working with the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover team, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover was spotted mid-drive on Mars for the first time, offering a fresh look at its mission.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

A new study has revealed that lichens can withstand the intense ionizing radiation that hits Mars' surface. (The lichen in ...

The HiRise camera is living up to its name, capturing a rare look at the veteran rover from way up in Martian orbit.

As it whooshed over the Gale Crater on February 28, the orbiter snapped a picture of the rover, which appears as a tiny black ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered siderite in Gale Crater. This shows Mars had a partial carbon cycle, storing and releasing ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...