There will be several weeks of tests before NASA lets its robotic vehicle, called Curiosity, explore the surface of Mars. Curiosity will look for evidence that the planet once might have had ...

The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover landed on the Red Planet on Sunday to determine if life ever existed there. Clara, from Kansas, suggested the name Curiosity in a ...

LOS ANGELES, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Researchers examining pulverized rock samples aboard NASA's Curiosity rover have discovered the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars, according to a new study ...