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NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. Full story
NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. Full story
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will perform its second-ever drilling operation soon, boring into a knobby section of bedrock dubbed "Cumberland," space agency officials announced Thursday (May 9). Full story
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed analysis of a sample of rock powder following a computer glitch that suspended operations for a week, scientists said on Monday. Full story
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 18 - The Mars rover Curiosity has had a second computer glitch, extending an unplanned work break for the NASA robot that discovered the first life-friendly chemistry beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. Full story
If you truly were terrified during the Seven Minutes of Terror that saw the Curiosity Rover successfully land on Mars, you can blame NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Tom Rivellini. As JPL's Principal Engineer for Entry Descent and Landing Systems, Rivellini co-invented the sky crane landing system Full story
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Europe and Russia signed a deal on Thursday for a joint Mars mission which will bore beneath the Red Planet's surface for soil samples they hope will solve the mystery of whether there is life beyond Earth. Full story
The Curiosity rover has released more images of Mars, including a self-portrait created with more than 50 images. NBC’s Kate Snow has more.
NASA’s curiosity rover may not have found organic life, but many experts believe colonization of the red planet is within our reach. Jerry Stone from the Mars Society tells NBC’s Keir Simmons there’s reason to get excited.
NASA has compiled the first-ever list of minerals found on another planet after the Curiosity rover found soil on the Red Planet similar to the volcanic sand found in Hawaii. TODAY’s Tamron Hall reports.
NASA's Curiosity Rover took a break from its scooping mission on Mars after a bright object was found on the ground. While officials think it came from the rover, the scooping has been halted until officials determine what it is. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports.
NASA's Curiosity rover took a self-portrait on Mars, using a camera mounted on its robotic arm. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
This January 27, 2013 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSS handout photo shows a general view, captured by Mastcam:Left onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the Red Planet, even more complicated than last
A NASA handout photo showing a rock target called "Wernecke" taken by Mars rover Curiosity's camera on Jan. 26, 2013 and released April 24, 2013. The gray area in the center of this image is where the Dust Removal Tool on the robotic arm brushed a rock revealing dark nodules and white veins crissc
This handout provided March 18, 2013 by NASA shows a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combining 66 exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013). The rover is positioned at a patch of flat outcrop ca
The Curiosity rover's instrument-laden robotic arm is front and center in this mosaic view captured by the Mars rover's NavCam system and assembled by Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer. The colorized black-and-white imagery was captured on March 23, which is Sol 223 of Curiosity's mission on the Red P
