In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would ...

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A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

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The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...

The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of ...

After a year of exploring a mysterious valley on Mars, NASA 's intrepid Curiosity rover is headed to a new destination with ...

A stunning panorama shows the haunting terrain of the Gediz Vallis channel, where the Curiosity rover has been exploring.

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Google’s internal pedagogy and learning sciences team conferred with a range of experts, such as researchers and ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...