NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

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Here’s how it works. New photos reveal several sizable holes in one of the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, highlighting the toll that 12 years of scrambling across the Red Planet's harsh ...

Join a Mars science team. NASA put out a call for volunteers willing to gaze at spacecraft images of Mars to look for ethereal clouds floating over the red planet.

While NASA searches for signs of life on the Red Planet, its Curiosity rover has found new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life, to the ...

NASA's Rovers landed on Mars and their discoveries revealed new chapters of the Red Planet's mysterious geology.

NASA's Curiosity rover has new insights into how Mars might have changed from a potentially habitable, water-rich planet to an absolutely uninhabitable desert. The search for life on Mars goes ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life—with evidence for ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has added a new wrinkle to the theory that the surface of Mars was once hospitable to alien life. New chemical analysis of Martian dirt hints at eras in the planet’s ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New photos reveal several sizable holes in one of the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover ...