The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, and beyond that the hilly walls of Gale Crater. In the foreground, Martian ...

Curiosity got the better of us, and we flipped the switch. What followed was a chain of unexpected behavior, eerie responses, ...

Meet RoboSimian, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the creators of the Mars rover Curiosity. Apes were the inspiration behind their design, which enables the robot to do pull-ups and ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars' irradiated surface. The car-sized robot's molecule-sleuthing instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars ...

I’m one of a team of more than 500 travelers exploring Mars from California with the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another planet. As I write, Curiosity is pounding a hole into a rock in ...

But surely the team is making constant tweaks to its robot in preparation for the World Championships, right? Wrong. Curiosity is currently sealed in a plastic bag with severe restrictions on who ...