Curiosity and MAVEN share the same alien sky, one on the ground and one in orbit, yet the rover will never simply “look up” and spot its missing partner. The reason is not a failure of imagination but ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery have been named among the best inventions of the past quarter-century – at least, according to Time magazine. The media company recently assembled a list of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though it has been scouring the Martian surface for more than a decade, NASA's Curiosity rover has never been imaged from above ...

Space and its mysterious world never fail to surprise humans. According to the latest report, 14 years after touching down on ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has snapped some stunning photos during its first two full days on the Red Planet, and things should get even better on day three. Curiosity landed inside Mars' huge Gale ...

Later this week, a piece of Cold War space history is expected to return to Earth—although where it will land remains unclear. Scientists estimate that Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that launched ...

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover “on the move.” The remarkable photograph, enhanced to bring out the details, ...

Happy 13 th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has survived its four-day "brain transplant" in fine shape and is now gearing up for its first Red Planet drive, scientists announced today (Aug. 14). Engineers upgraded ...