CAPE CANAVERAL — Atlas V is a venerable rocket, but it's about to break new territory: Carrying humans instead of uncrewed missions on board. United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket has been in ...
From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...
The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...
After over a decade of hard travels, Curiosity remains functional, if somewhat beat up from the tough Mars surface. The rover's next destination, a formation of weblike patterns called "the ...
For the first time, a Mars rover has measured the mass of the rocks beneath its wheels. By taking gravity measurements as it climbed a Martian mountain, Curiosity discovered something surprising ...