Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

A new study suggests that long-chain organic molecules discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars are difficult to explain ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery have been named among the best inventions of the past quarter-century – at least, according to Time magazine. The media company recently assembled a list of ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent an image more than 352 million miles back to Earth of its first scoop of Martian material. The land was lifted from the ground yesterday is 1.8 inches wide and 2.8 ...

Happy 13 th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to ...