The find was "completely unexpected," said Abigail Fraeman, the Curiosity mission's deputy project scientist. "It's probably ...

But the mission team was not sure how to suspend a rover as large as Curiosity without it swinging dangerously. Drawing ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. So Curiosity's team was surprised to discover the mission's clearest evidence yet of ancient lakes surviving for much longer than ...

The rover snapped multiple pictures of clouds that day. The Curiosity team highlighted one shot in a mission update on Jan. 8. The view shows a rocky hill with filmy, almost fog-like clouds above.

"The discovery of wave ripples is an important advance for Mars paleoclimate science," says Grotzinger, the former project scientist for Curiosity's mission, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned to Earth as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course ...

Designed to last one Martian year (which amounts to two years on Earth), Curiosity has outlasted her original mission. The rover talks to earth by sending radio waves from a ultra-high frequency ...

Expert Mars guides in the programme include scientists on the current Curiosity mission, and on the preceeding rover explorations by Spirit and Opportunity. Kevin talks to hard sci-fi novelist Kim ...