Topic: Curiosity Rover

NASA scientists said they have zeroed in on the first rock on Mars that will be targeted by the laser on the Curiosity rover.

NASA scientists say they've selected the first driving destination for the Mars Curiosity rover, as the six-wheeled mobile laboratory awaits it marching orders.

NASA scientists say they've completed a "brain transplant" in the Mars Curiosity rover to prepare it for its investigations of the Red Planet's surface.

U.S. President Barack Obama joked a NASA scientist has inspired him to revisit his dreams of sporting a mohawk hairstyle.

President Barack Obama called the Mars Curiosity science team, saying he "could not be more excited about what you've been doing," the White House reported.

NASA officials said the Mars rover Curiosity landed about 1.5 miles from its intended target on the Red Planet after "an impressive" 350-million-mile journey.

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has taken a photographic "self-portrait" with the rover's just-activated navigation cameras, called Navcams, engineers said.

A photo of Mars taken by Curiosity may have caught the rover's carrying craft crash-landing, although it would be an "insane" coincidence, NASA scientists say.

The first color image from Mars taken by the Curiosity rover has been received, showing a wall and rim of the landing site area of Gale Crater, NASA said.

The Curiosity rover, the biggest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, landed safely on Mars early Monday, the U.S. space agency NASA said.