In the dusty, rust-colored expanse of Gale Crater on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a ghostly echo of a long-lost world. Etched into the rock are tiny undulations — ripples frozen in time, ...

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

Shape memory alloys are metals that can return to their original shape after being bent, stretched, heated, and cooled.

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been exploring Mars since 2012 and, more recently has found evidence of ice-free ancient ponds and lakes on the surface. The rover found small undulations like those seen in ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has recently taken a look at the Martian sky and captured stunning clouds of the red planet.As ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course of the next few ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...