NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 28, 2013
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars this week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 5, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove twice as far on July 21 as on any other day of the mission so far: 109.7 yards (100.3 meters).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 24, 2013
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 17, 2013
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 9, 2013
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 17, 2013
Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 9, 2013
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 4, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 21, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 12, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 16, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 19, 2012
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 17, 2012
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe, ferried to Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 11, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 4, 2012
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 25, 2012
NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta, using images that were among the last taken by the spacecraft as it departed its...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 12, 2012
This view of the calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines two images taken by that camera during the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 10, 2012