While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ...

But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity ...

The team recorded a total of 478 different organisms, including comb jellies, arrowworms, snailfish and shrimp. In one clip, ...

Curiosity rover shook loose a 28-pound rock lodged on its drill, a first for the mission that’s been exploring Mars for more ...

Rock extraction success: Curiosity dislodged the 'Atacama' rock on May 1 after it clamped to the drill during an April 25 sampling attempt. Six-day engineering push: NASA engineers tested multiple ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire ...

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, but the Mars rover Curiosity just keeps on groovin’—even if its handlers had to spend several ...

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, ...

Unexpected rock snag: On April 25, 2026, Curiosity’s drill lifted a loose slab called Atacama from Gale Crater’s surface, leaving it stuck to the drill sleeve. Six-day recovery: Engineers 300 million ...