The title is something out of a sci-fi movie. But "The Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror" is actually a video from NASA about the Mars rover, Curiosity. The dramatic ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

— -- Followers of the Mars rover can now experience their own "seven minutes of terror" using their Xbox 360 video game system and Kinect motion controller. The descent and landing of the rover ...

You’ve probably already seen the trailer. It’s gotten 800,000 YouTube hits, it’s been shown on most major broadcast and cable news shows and its name — “Seven Minutes of Terror” — has become something ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists may have just captured evidence of lighting on Mars for the first time.The ...

Here's how it went down in the control room: ORIGINAL POST: Provided NASA's 'Curiosity' Mars rover can survive an extremely difficult landing process, the biggest machine we've ever sent to Mars will ...

A selection of some of our top photography from around the world this week.

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

Europe and Russia celebrated placing a robot explorer into Mars orbit on Wednesday, but ground controllers faced an anxious night searching for the tiny lander it had despatched to the Red Planet's ...

Landing on Mars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Landing on Mars in HD. NASA, aka the BuzzFeed of Government, tweeted out a new video Thursday capturing the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity. The 3 ...