NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has left its first tracks in the Martian soil, imprinting the coded mark of its maker in its trail. On Wednesday (Aug. 22), the car-size, six-wheeled rover took its first ...

(Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life. The $2.5-billion, ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has posted a short video showing some recent testing of an engineering model of the Mars Science Laboratory in their outdoor Mars Yard; they're testing the performance of ...

NASA’s newest Mars rover will not touch down on the red planet until August, but scientists are already testing out the vehicle’s desert driving skills. Researchers took a test version of NASA’s ...

As the repair work on the Curiosity Mars rover ended, performed from millions of miles away, NASA engineers came up with the idea of upgrading Earth’s out of this world explorer. Ever since late 2016, ...

NASA mission controllers late Aug. 21 will send commands for the Mars Science Laboratory “Curiosity” rover to perform its first short test drive the following evening. Set to take place late Aug. 22, ...