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Curiosity rover takes first short spin around Mars
Curiosity took its first test drive around the gravel-strewn Martian terrain Wednesday, preparation for the ultimate road trip to find out if the red ...
Mars rover Curiosity prepares for test drive
Scientists prepared to send Curiosity on its first test drive Wednesday over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor wouldn't ...
NASA rover flexes arm for first time on Mars
NASA's Mars rover has taken another small step for robot-kind. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California say the rover Curiosity ...
NASA picks another Mars flight to explore its core
After driving all around Mars with four rovers, NASA wants to look deep into the guts of the red planet. The space agency decided Monday to launch a ...
Like NASA rover, family switches over to Mars time
For one family, an exotic summer getaway means living on Mars. Martian time, that is. Since the landing of NASA's newest Mars rover, flight director ...
NASA rover Curiosity shoots a Mars rock with laser
NASA's Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science. During the target practice on Sunday.
NASA rover prepares to use laser on a Martian rock
Ready, set, fire. The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is preparing for its first laser target practice — zapping a Martian rock 10 feet away on Saturday ...
Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's ...
New geek chic: Mohawks in, pocket protectors out
Known to the Twitterverse and the president of the United States as "Mohawk Guy" of the Mars mission, Bobak Ferdowsi could be the changing public face ...
Obama cheers 'mind-boggling' Curiosity mission
Hailing NASA's "mind-boggling" Mars landing of the Curiosity rover, President Barack Obama urged the scientists operating the craft on Monday to phone ...
NASA's mega-rover landed on Mars. What's next?
After a spectacular landing on Mars, the rover Curiosity wasted no time embracing its inner shutterbug, delighting scientists with vistas of Gale ...
NASA: Mars rover snapped pic of rocket stage crash
Space enthusiasts have been abuzz for days over whether the Mars rover Curiosity captured an extraterrestrial crash. On Friday, NASA declared the ...
Former astronaut Armstrong has heart surgery
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was recovering from heart surgery, days after his 82nd birthday. A NASA spokesman talked to ...
NASA rover sends back colorful picture of Mars
The photo-snapping rover Curiosity returned another postcard from Mars on Thursday — the first 360-degree color panorama of Gale Crater.
NASA's 'green' planetary test lander crashes
Earlier this week NASA safely landed a robotic rover on Mars about 150 million miles away. But on Thursday here on Earth, a test model planetary ...
Russian PM angered by failed Russian space launch
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that this week's failed space launch has dented the nation's prestige and that those to blame ...
Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'
The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and ...
NASA mission gives a peek of rover's Mars journey
NASA's latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape. It opened a window into the trip itself, from ...
British astronomer Bernard Lovell dies at 98
Pioneering British physicist and astronomer Bernard Lovell, who developed one of the world's largest radio telescopes exploring particles in the ...
Russian rocket fails to reach target orbit
Russia's space pride suffered another blow Tuesday when a booster rocket failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits, a mishap ...
NASA releases low-res video of Mars rover descent
NASA's Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, ...
Why Mars again? A look at NASA's latest venture
NASA's new robot rover named Curiosity landed safely late Sunday in a huge crater near the equator of Mars and will soon begin its scientific studies.
NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars after plummet
In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside ...