NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months photographing strange web-like patterns etched into the bedrock of Gale Crater on Mars, and the close-up images reveal something far more ...

A NASA image of Mars has captured a mysterious object in the distance that some believe resembles a jellyfish-like being or a mechanical device. NASA's Curiosity rover, which has spent over a decade ...

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and—after waving the arm and running the drill a few times—finally detached ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of the polygon fractures discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover highlights their honeycomb-like textures. (CREDIT: ...

The Curiosity rover used LED lights on the end of its robotic arm at night to illuminate a hole it had drilled into a rock, Nevado Sajama, in November 2025. Scientists wanted to know if they could see ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered an extraordinary landscape while climbing through a Martian valley nicknamed "Valle Grande." Images sent back by the rover show the ground covered with honeycomb ...

While it has enabled many exciting discoveries, the Curiosity rover has also encountered its share of setbacks. The latest left NASA engineers speechless. On April 25, the Mars rover drilled into a ...

A team of scientists using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered the highest amounts of iron, manganese, and zinc ever found together in Gale Crater on Mars. Minerals ...