Unexpected rock hitch: Curiosity accidentally pulled an entire rock from Mars during drilling, marking the first time a sample stayed attached to its drill sleeve. Remote problem-solving: NASA ...

On May 11, 2026, NASA released a series of images capturing a genuinely odd moment on Mars. The Curiosity rover, a machine ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover ran into one of the strangest problems of its Mars mission after accidentally pulling an entire rock ...

While it has enabled many exciting discoveries, the Curiosity Rover has also encountered its share of setbacks. The latest ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. See a new timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on its ...

While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ...

The plan was routine. The rover was supposed to drill into the rock, collect a sample, and simply pull back. But it didn't ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire ...

The team recorded a total of 478 different organisms, including comb jellies, arrowworms, snailfish and shrimp. In one clip, ...

It took a week of waving the arm on which the drill was mounted for the rogue rock to finally drop back to the Martian ...

Curiosity rover shook loose a 28-pound rock lodged on its drill, a first for the mission that’s been exploring Mars for more ...