The U.S. space agency released the image April 24, which the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped earlier this year. At the time, Curiosity was in the middle of a slow trek across the surface ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on ...

But arachnophobes have nothing to fear, even if the Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that the Red Planet has succumbed to an infestation of creepy crawlies. Rather, a strange chemical ...

India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as MOM, has ended after eight years – even though it was designed for a six-month lifespan, the Indian Space Research Organization announced this week.

Despite its modest overall achievements, India's Mars Orbiter Mission is one of the more notable successes of the modern spaceflight era. Launched in 2013, it was the first Mars mission built by ...

1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left ...

As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back.A camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, called the High Resolution Imaging ...