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Curiosity Drills 2nd Hole into Ancient Mars Rocks Searching for the Ingredients of Life

NASA"s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail biting landing in August 2012 inside Gale Crater as she searches for the ingredients of life.

Drill, Baby, Drill! How Does Curiosity "Do It"

It"s time at last for Drill, Baby, Drill! Martian Style.

Ever wonder how Curiosity Does It Well, check out this enlightening and cool new NASA video for an exquisitely detailed demonstration of just how Curiosity shakes, rattles and rolls on the Red Planet and swallows that mysterious Mar

Photo Project Will Send Balloon to Lower Stratosphere

NASA may have retired the space shuttle, but that doesn't mean amateur explorers need to stay grounded, right?


The Kua Fu Initiative is a photo project raising funds through Kickstarter to send a payload capsule into the lower stratosphere to capture HD photos and videos.

Curiosity Reaches Out with Martian Handshake and Contemplates New Drilling

NASA"s Curiosity rover has reached out in a Martian "handshake" like gesture welcoming the end of solar conjunction that marks the resumption of contact with her handlers back on Earth – evidenced in a new photo mosaic of images captured as the robot and her human handlers contemplate a short

DailyDirt: Living On Earth (Or Elsewhere)

The origins of life are incredibly mysterious. The life that we normally interact with is made up of chiral molecules, and no one actually knows why only certain chiral molecules are involved in our biology. No one knows how life began, or where it began, or when.

Bizarre Mars Mountain Possibly Built by Wind, Not Water

The mysterious Martian mountain that beckons NASA's Curiosity rover was likely built primarily by wind rather than water, as previously believed, a new study suggests.

Nasa chief Bolden says agency can go where no man has gone before: Mars

Sequester cuts and 'technology gaps' cannot quell agency's confidence and interest from aspiring astronauts

If the prospect of spending a thousand days up to 140 million miles away from the Earth was not enough of a deterrent, killer radiation levels and enforced radio silence would surely

Stunning Mars Panoramas Show Curiosity Rover at Work

Three spectacular new panoramas give an eye-popping look at NASA's Mars rover Curiosity hard at work on the Red Planet.

Back From Far Side of the Sun, Curiosity Rover Gets Ready to Resume Science

After a long period of silence, NASA has reestablished its link with the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers and is getting ready to resume science operations on Mars.

What's Next for Curiosity? Mars Mountaineering

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to determine if the planet most like Earth in the solar system ever had the ingredients for microbial life, returns to work on Wednesday following a month-long hiatus due to the sun blocking radio communications with Earth.