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Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world. That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, ...

At 10:31 p.m. PDT on April 27 NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, was within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface. At that moment, the mission had ...

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 ...

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 ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission's first photographs Monday -- grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

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 ...