NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.

LOS ANGELES — NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater.

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars. Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses photos from the UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to show how NASA’s Mars Science Lab will land in August 2012. Nancy Atkinson of Universe ...