The Curiosity rover has been trundling around Mars since it touched down on the Red Planet exactly 14 years ago today (Aug. 6, 2012), spending all that time gathering intel and images to send back to ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...

NASA's veteran rover is showing signs of age, but it continues making discoveries about the planet's ancient environment.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Apr 26, 2025, 09:00am EDT NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28—the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission—Curiosity was captured in ...

Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals. Since October ...

The polygonal fractures surround another impressive feature on Mars that Curiosity also photographed. On June 11, the rover ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been trudging up Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain at ...