Full coverage: Curiosity on Mars

The rover Curiosity, nearing Mars, has sophisticated tools to help answer the question: Did the Red Planet ever sustain life — and could it today?

Curiosity drills into an ancient lake to discover signs that Gale Crater was once wet and potentially Earth-like. ‘It’s a great leap forward,’ one scientist says.

Gazing up at the Red Planet’s pair of moons, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has caught two famous asteroids zipping across the night sky – marking the first time such space rocks have ever been caught on camera from the Martian surface.

His purpose: To make sure the rover team was prepared to deal with space junk, lost signals and any other challenges he could think up.

What’s it like to be the Curiosity Rover on Mars? Watch this video and you’ll find out.

Before going incommunicado behind the Sun for a month, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent Earth evidence that the Red Planet has lost much of its original atmosphere.

The most high-fidelity search for methane on Mars has turned up none, a result that significantly reduces the chances of finding microbial life on the Red Planet.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been sending back images since landing on the Red Planet in August 2012.

A JPL scientist’s family joins him on his mission to live sol by sol - and discovers a new sort of life around Los Angeles.

NASA released footage of the first double lunar eclipse viewed from Mars rover Curiosity.

On the first anniversary of NASA’s rover Curiosity’s touchdown in Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory lead scientist John Grotzinger says the team has a lot to be thankful for — and much more to look forward to.

Recent discoveries by NASA’s Curiosity rover show Mars to be more complex than had been known, with water-embedded dust covering its surface and a mature, almost Earthlike, geology.

On the 529th day of Curiosity’s journey on Mars, the rover turned its cameras to the skies and sent back this humbling image of Earth and our moon.

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover got its own official Lego avatar.

When Curiosity nailed its picture-perfect touchdown on Mars last year, the mission control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted into cheers and high-fives.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, charged with looking for past life on the planet, probably won’t be finding any signs of current – or even recent – activity, if the Curiosity rover’s discoveries are any indication.

UFO watchers’ eyes were set ablaze recently by reports of what looked like a stony rodent lurking among the rocks on Mars.

Unimpressed by Michael Jackson’s iconic moonwalk? How about a “Marswalk”?

Think those tools aboard NASA’s rover Curiosity are only good for sniffing out argon isotopes and drilling into mysterious rocks?