A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With more than a decade of operation, Curiosity has traveled across varied terrains, drilled into bedrock and monitored the ...

NASA has shared a new orbital image of the Curiosity Mars rover making tracks across the Red Planet to uncover secrets kept for billions of years. The image was taken from its Mars Reconnaissance ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the ...

For over a decade, NASA's Curiosity rover has been capturing images of Mars as scientists continue to study the planet's structures and surface. Curiosity's goal as it travels across Mars is to look ...

Curiosity has been the subject of countless selfies and images taken from space, but has never been photographed from Mars' own orbit. The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars since ...

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.