Let's face it: Unless you've got $500,000 to spare and can wait a few years, you're probably not going to be landing on Mars anytime soon. The best you can manage for now is to follow the exploits of ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ever sent to the Red Planet. The two-ton science laboratory is about the ...

On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and most ambitious Mars rover ever launched. Its landing involved a new kind of ...

This color-enhanced view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Viewers can now relive the drama of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars with a new NASA video detailing the final moments of touchdown. The space agency on Thursday posted ...

After a 36-week journey, travelling about 352 million miles, NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars at 1:32 a.m. on August 6, 2012. After penetrating Mars’ atmosphere at 13,000 miles per ...

Two icons of discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME's "Best Inventions Hall of Fame ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

Moonquakes were once a scientific curiosity buried in Apollo-era data. Now a fresh analysis of those tremors is forcing ...

You’ve probably already seen the trailer. It’s gotten 800,000 YouTube hits, it’s been shown on most major broadcast and cable news shows and its name — “Seven Minutes of Terror” — has become something ...

Here's how it went down in the control room: ORIGINAL POST: Provided NASA's 'Curiosity' Mars rover can survive an extremely difficult landing process, the biggest machine we've ever sent to Mars will ...