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Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window into the red planet’s past. The newly detected compounds suggest complex organic chemistry ...

Curiosity landed on Mars after a harrowing plunge through the atmosphere. Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover, has made a safe landing on the surface of ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope allows scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before.

The Mars Curiosity rover discovered decane, undecane, and dodecane—the largest organic molecules yet identified on Mars—within the Cumberland rock sample from Gale Crater's Yellowknife Bay, a presumed ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery have been named among the best inventions of the past quarter-century – at least, according to Time magazine. The media company recently assembled a list of ...

The latest panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover turns Mount Sharp from a distant backdrop into an overwhelming, ...