This image was taken by the left Navcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on June 18, 2019, the 2,440th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It shows part of “Teal Ridge,” which the rover has been ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to make discoveries that challenge our understanding of the Martian environment. The latest strange puzzle taxing scientists is the variation of oxygen levels on the ...

High methane levels detected by the rover hinted at the possibility of life but follow up experiments show it was a transient plume. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...

Last week, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has detected high amounts of potentially life-indicating methane from its location inside Gale Crater. The six-wheeled robot reported methane levels around 21 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover encountered something new on the Red Planet last week and the results could potentially have implications for life on Mars. The rover's tunable laser spectrometer, called SAM, ...