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 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover was built for a 2-year Mars mission. Nearly 14 years later, it is still making history in Gale Crater.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canal Fulton native Tim Schlernitzauer holds a copy of the specialized bearings that he helped design for the landing gear of the ...

At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars. To mark the 12th anniversary, NASA has shared a video (below) in which members of the ...

An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot (almost 16 ...

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 ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity marks a full week on the Red Planet today (Aug. 13), and it's celebrating with a little rest and relaxation. The 1-ton rover began beaming home photos and testing out its ...

When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that ...

The Mars Rover Curiousity landing will be going downs soon, but before it does, take the opportunity to get familiar with the step by step process of how it’s supposed to happen. This animation from ...