New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

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The Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring the Martian surface for a decade, encounters a strange light while crossing Dingo Gap, a challenging sand dune. The rover’s engineers at NASA have long ...

Managing Director Matthew Aldridge believes the future of space mobility lies in advanced polymer engineering. “Our ...

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Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

The Curiosity rover has spent over a decade on Mars, uncovering astonishing discoveries and revealing the hidden history of ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

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Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.