NASA’s rover snapped these stunning photos of glistening clouds on Mars
Photos from Mars are often eye-catching but rarely do the Martian clouds provide visual splendor. The rusty hues that cover the ground and most of …
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NASA’s Curiosity rover is about to drill into this weird rock
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has arrived at its next drilling location and plans to take samples of a rock known as “Breamish.” Curiosity spent the …
NASA’s Curiosity rover is on a road trip
NASA is sending its Curiosity rover on a journey to a new area of Mount Sharp, the massive peak that sits in the center of …
NASA wants you to help it navigate the surface of Mars
NASA now lets you label images snapped by its Curiosity rover to help it and future Mars missions navigate the Red Planet’s surface. The tool, …
Mars rover spots Earth from a distance
NASA’s Curiosity rover took a photo of the night sky and managed to spot both Earth and Venus. Curiosity is aging, but it’s still going …
NASA staff are sending rover commands to Mars from their homes
NASA’s Curiosity rover team is working from home, but still controls the robot’s movements on the Red Planet. Using video conferencing to coordinate, the team …
This 1.8 billion pixel panorama of Mars is Curiosity’s most incredible eye candy yet
NASA’s Curiosity rover has a long history of snapping gorgeous images from its adventures on Mars. The Red Planet offers plenty of opportunities for breathtaking …
NASA’s Mars orbiter visited the InSight lander and Curiosity rover from above
It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of having a single functioning machine on Mars was little more than a dream for scientists. Today, …
NASA’s Curiosity rover stumbled upon a Martian rock that tells an incredible story
We tend to think of rocks as being, well, pretty boring. We find them pretty much everywhere here on Earth, and while some are neat …
NASA’s Curiosity rover is celebrating seven incredible years on Mars
Earlier this year, NASA was forced to finally say goodbye to the trust Opportunity rover. It was a sad time for the space agency since …
NASA’s search for signs of life on Mars yields another shock
It was just a couple of days ago that NASA announced something pretty exciting about Mars. Its Curiosity rover had detected shockingly high levels of …
NASA’s Curiosity just stumbled upon evidence of an ancient Martian lake
NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing critical insights into what Mars may have been like long ago, and one of its latest discoveries helps support the …
NASA’s Curiosity rover just drilled a new hole on Mars
The year 2019 started off on a bittersweet note for NASA with the unfortunate demise of the incredibly trusty Opportunity rover on Mars. It was …
NASA’s Curiosity rover just witnessed two solar eclipses on Mars
When a solar eclipse is expected here on Earth, it can be a pretty big deal. Back in August of 2017, a total solar eclipse …
NASA’s Curiosity rover is back to work after bizarre glitch
NASA has had an interesting start to 2019 when it comes to its Mars rovers. Just days after having to declare the Opportunity rover dead …
NASA’s Curiosity rover entered ‘safe mode’ on Mars, but nobody knows why
You know that feeling you get when a piece of technology just isn’t working like it should, but you can’t find the cause? Whether it’s …
Guy gets tattoo to honor NASA’s Opportunity rover, but there’s one big problem
NASA’s Opportunity rover had a long, eventful stay on Mars, but unfortunately those days are now behind us. The rover has been officially declared dead …
Curiosity snaps a selfie before heading off to new adventures
NASA may be on the edge of its seat as it waits to see if its aging Opportunity rover will wake back up from its …
NASA is using a 1909 penny to learn more about seasons on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover is a powerful machine with some impressive capabilities when it comes to analyzing material samples, drilling into Martian rocks, and snapping images …
NASA forced its Curiosity rover to use its backup ‘brain’ after it started acting up
NASA has had a recent run of incredible success with its Mars missions. The possibly-now-dead Opportunity rover has already managed to outlast its expected lifespan …
Uh oh, there might be something wrong with NASA’s Curiosity rover now
NASA’s rover situation on Mars is, well, complicated. The aging Opportunity rover was swallowed up by the planet-wide dust storm that covered Mars earlier this …
NASA’s Curiosity rover just snapped a stunning 360-degree panorama of Mars
NASA’s Opportunity rover might be taking an extended nap at the moment (please don’t say it’s dead!) but the Curiosity rover is wide awake and …
NASA finally figured out what this ‘foreign object’ on Mars actually is
Despite what so many people would love to believe, NASA hasn’t discovered any evidence of past or present intelligent life on Mars. So, when the …
The Curiosity rover finally found a rock too hard to crack, but it tried anyway
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been doing some fantastic work on Mars, and even though it had to basically reinvent how it uses its primary sampling …
That massive Martian dust storm has now swallowed the entire planet
The colossal dust storm on Mars that has already enveloped the Curiosity rover is now a planet-wide event. In a new bulletin, NASA explains that …
NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped an amazing selfie as it was swallowed by a Martian dust storm
Mars isn’t a great place to be right now. Well, it’s really never a great place to be, at least not for the past billion …
NASA scientists invented a new way for Curiosity to drill on Mars, and it actually worked
When you’re doing some home improvements and a tool breaks it can be a pretty frustrating experience. I mean you have to go all the …
