NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is making strides toward bringing its rock-boring drill back online. On Oct. 17, Curiosity pressed its drill against a Martian rock for the first time since December 2016, ...

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 ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first halting steps on the Red Planet today (Aug. 22), snapping photos of its tracks to commemorate the test drive milestone. The 1-ton Curiosity rover was slated ...

The rover Curiosity detected substances containing water, sulfur and other materials familiar to earthlings during its first full set of chemical tests of Martian soil, NASA officials announced Monday ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity could get back to its old rock-drilling ways soon. A mechanical problem knocked Curiosity's drill, which sits at the end of the rover's 7-foot-long (2 meters) robotic arm, ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists were preparing to send Curiosity on its first test drive Wednesday over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor wouldn't jeopardize its mission ...

June 5 (UPI) --The mini testing labs built into the core of NASA's Curiosity rover are back up and running, testing rock samples collected by its newly functional drill. According to NASA, one of the ...