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

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

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 Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including seven that had never been detected before on the red planet. These carbon-containing ...

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 ...

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

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

It took a week of waving the arm on which the drill was mounted for the rogue rock to finally drop back to the Martian ...

NASA says that during the long time it spent working on Mars, the Curiosity managed to fracture and separate the upper layers ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed extraordinary spiderweb-like formations on Mars that scientists believe could hold ...