Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, metallic mars rover sits on the red dirt, with small hills in the background. NASA's Curiosity rover is doing well after ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached 1,000 Mars sols after arriving on the faraway planet in February 2021. The rover, NASA’s most advanced to date, announced the achievement in a post on social ...

This is a black and white image of rocks embedded in sand on Martian ground. Low hills are present in the horizon of the image against a clear sky. In the forefront smooth sand and small scattered ...

NASA’s Curiosity mission has just passed a special milestone. On Monday, NASA announced that Curiosity has now surpassed 4,000 sols, or days on Mars. Curiosity is the oldest active Martian rover, ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has spent an incredible 4,000 sols (Martian days) on the Red Planet since it first landed on the Martian surface in 2012. Curiosity completed its primary mission objective ...

Searching for organic molecules in rocks on Mars is no easy task. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument is designed to analyze the chemical composition of gases, which it creates by ...

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.