Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries — and learning to do more with ...

It took a series of complicated maneuvers never attempted before that led to the successful landing on Mars' Gale crater.

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...

In early July, the Red Planet rises around 10:30 p.m. local daylight time and climbs highest around 3 a.m. It shines brilliantly at magnitude –2.2. But Mars doesn’t stand pat.

The only problem is that Martians are already there, and when humans land on the red planet in the then-distant year of 1999, it doesn’t take long for the Martians to hunt them down.

"As this type of technology develops, it's going to have spinoff benefits for sustainability technology here on Earth as well ...

And in 2012, Steltzner's last big project, the Curiosity rover, landed on the Red Planet. It's still exploring Mars today.