NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has beamed home photos confirming that it recovered samples from deep within a Red Planet rock, cementing the robot's place in exploration history.

In 2012, the Curiosity rover began its slow trek across the surface of Mars, listening for commands from Earth about where to go, what to photograph, which rocks to inspect. Then last year ...

For Tan, Curiosity isn’t a cute robot, it’s a $2.5 billion national asset. Tan said she and other Curiosity team members are mindful of the purpose of the mission, which is to study Mars.

The Mars mission will use an on-board nuclear generator to produce heat and, using thermoelectric devices, generate enough electricity to power the Curiosity robot for years.

An apparent short circuit has interrupted robot arm operations pending an engineering analysis. NASA NASAThe $2.5 billion Curiosity successfully landed in Gale Crater in August 2012.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been exploring the Red Planet just since last August, but the robot has already racked up quite a string of accomplishments. For example, the 1-ton rover has ...

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The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM, Sample Analysis at Mars, instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars ...

Curiosity has bounced back from numerous glitches during its long and accomplished mission. An attitude problem sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity recently, but the robot's handlers whipped it ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space. In just one month, it’s driven 368 feet on the red planet, slightly ...

NASA’s Curiosity robot not only survived its elaborate landing on Mars but also wound up in the most scientifically exciting pocket of its 48-square-mile target area on the floor of an ancient ...