NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket today to investigate whether Mars is, or ever was, habitable to microbial life.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, a car-size rover, will launch toward Mars in November 2011. Take a photo tour of the Curiosity rover before its packed for Mars.

In total, Curiosity has fired its laser -- which is part of the rover's ChemCam instrument -- more than 350,000 times at about 10,000 targets, NASA said.

Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals.

Curiosity is the name of NASA’s latest Mars rover, a car-sized nuclear powered robot whose lasers and sensors will hopefully help determine if the planet could ever have supported life.

All systems appear go for the Saturday launch of NASA's next Mars rover, officials announced Wednesday. The car-size Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory ...

Engineers are fine-tuning software and procedures to prepare for the entry, descent, and landing of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Lab rover in early August.

When did Curiosity and Perseverance rovers launch? The Curiosity rover began its voyage to Mars in November 2011 during a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The day after Thanksgiving may be “Black Friday” for American stores and shoppers, but this year, it’s a red letter day for scientists in Pasadena, as Saturday is blast-off for the next Mars ...

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees below zero, and a low temperature of a staggering 114 degrees below zero.

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life. CNN values your feedback 1.