curiosity rover
Curiosity's Latest Find: An Ancient Martian Lake 'Well Suited' for Life
Conditions may have been good enough to support "many combinations" of microbes.
A Brief History of Finding Water on Mars
And what the most recent discovery means for uncovering the planet's living past.
Choose Your Own Soundtrack for Curiosity's Year of Roving Mars
Silent movies need their pianists. What song do you want to see Curiosity dig to?
Let's Stop Wasting Money Sterilizing Our Spacecraft
Mars and Earth have been swapping germs for billions of years without our help
The Latest Sign of Life on Mars: Balls
NASA's not quite sure what to think of a curious geological phenomenon that the aging Opportunity Rover came across last week on Mars. The formation looks like a rash of tiny spheres, each about three millimeters in diameter, but scientists have no...
From Eight Months to Seven Minutes: NASA's Jim Adams on Mars' Curiosity
In less than 24 hours we'll know whether the Mars Curiosity Rover, the next in NASA's line of vehicles designed to probe one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors, plummeted to the Martian surface as it's been programmed to, or not. Jim Adams is...