A repurposed Mars rover tool could unlock the simplest test yet for detecting alien life, offering a faster, cheaper path to discovery.

This quiz is dedicated to the mechanical marvels that have rolled across the surfaces of alien worlds: the iconic space ...

Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have been making headlines with their discoveries of organic matter on the Red ...

Right now NASA’s Curiosity rover is still rolling around the Martian surface providing invaluable data about the red planet. Recently it accidentally broke open a rock while inspecting it, revealing a ...

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Monday Aug. 11, 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On the Curiosity team, we ...

Curiosity has discovered many small structures like this one, formed billions of years ago, when water was still liquid on ...

Synthetic biology offers a toolkit to engineer microbes capable of surviving in outer space and for biomanufacturing ...

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new ...

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With its rust-colored surface, Mars has more than earned its nickname, the Red Planet. But Perseverance has offered a new ...

Test-run shows how a team of three autonomous robots could search for extraterrestrial environments suitable for sheltering ...