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NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

By Frank Landymore

The harsh terrain of the Martian surface has done an absolute number on NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels, as a new picture shows.

The Curiosity Mars Rover’s Wheel Looks Absolutely Wrecked

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover crushed a rock while exploring — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.

NASA Mars Rover Following Path of What Appears to Be Ancient River

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that's riddled with manganese, a potential sign of ancient life.

Mars Loaded With Mineral Closely Associated With Life, NASA Rover Finds

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.

NASA Discovers Precious Gemstones on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated a decade on the Red Planet on Friday with an art poster. New missions and helicopters are in the Red Planet's future.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10th Anniversary

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Now, we get to see Curiosity's next fascinating discovery: two ancient "spikes" of cemented rock that almost look like the petrified remains of ancient trees.

NASA Rover Spots Extremely Weird Spikes on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued by Possible Sign of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Rover’s New Selfie Will Make You Feel Like You’re on Mars, and Maybe a Little Drunk

By Victor Tangermann