NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route to continue exploring Mount Sharp. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

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NASA's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

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Scientists have discovered a new way to uncover what lies beneath the surfaces of planets like Mars by studying the debris spread from impact craters. Using simulations and real Martian data, they ...

This included Mars, where NASA’s Perseverance rover made history by capturing a visible light image of the event with its Mastcam-Z instrument. This was the first time that an aurora was ...

A view of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on May 11, 2025. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech It is currently late autumn in Gale Crater, the region of Mars where Curiosity is exploring ...

The smaller of Mars' two moons shines in the sky before sunrise on the Red Planet, as captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. NASA's Perseverance rover captured this pre-dawn view of Mars' moon ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image by NASA’s Perseverance shows evidence ...