PASADENA, Calif. — Two NASA Mars orbiters will be ready and waiting to send home news of the Curiosity rover's landing attempt Sunday night (Aug. 5) — and one may even snap a photo of the daredevil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is transforming into a Martian shutterbug. Since its spectacular landing on Sunday (Aug. 5 PDT) , the car-size rover has beamed home swift views of its Gale Crater landing ...

The image is a composite of 2 panoramas taken at different times of day, with color added for artistic interpretation. Curiosity has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs that the ...

The first Mars photos from NASA's Curiosity rover prompt a huge celebration by the rover's mission support team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., just minutes after the rover's ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a coral-shaped rock on Mars. Though not alive, its shape reveals clues about the planet’s geology. Small discoveries like this help scientists decode Mars’ ancient past ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a knobbly Martian rock that looks strikingly like a piece of ocean coral, a reminder ...

Confirm that life could exist outside Earth. Check. Explore the ancient geography of Mars. Check. Become a social media powerhouse. Check. NASA's Curiosity -- and the humans who make her work -- have ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...