The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May 15 ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

On May 11, 2026, NASA released a series of images capturing a genuinely odd moment on Mars. The Curiosity rover, a machine that has handled brutal radiation and dust storms for over a decade, was ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.

Problems in space can be complex and dangerous. But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity's woes began on April 25 ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover keeps cruisin’ and can’t stop, won’t stop movin’—except when its drill got stuck in some rock. The problem started on April 25. That date was supposed to be Curiosity’s ...

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"This terrain is a time capsule from the earliest period of the solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has released ...

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life. Some of these molecules may be billions of years old, preserved in ancient ...

NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet's formation, watery past, and potential for ...