Curiosity rover ready to eat, analyse Martian rock powder

21 Feb, 2013, 10:41 am IST Science and Technology

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the planet ever had ingredients for life, drilled its first bit of powder from inside a potentially water-formed ancient rock... More

Curiosity rover gets first Mars rock samples

11 Feb, 2013, 9:56 am IST Science and Technology

NASA's Curiosity rover has become the first spacecraft ever to drill into a Martian rock and collect stone powder samples for further study, NASA said... More

NASA's Mars rover finds traces of carbon - one essential for life

04 Dec, 2012, 10:17 am IST Science and Technology

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to look for the chemical ingredients and environments for microbial life, has found traces of... More

Mars rover team may reveal major discovery soon

22 Nov, 2012, 10:47 am IST Science and Technology

The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive discovery, but NASA scientists are keeping it under ... More

Mars rover still sniffing for elusive methane

03 Nov, 2012, 9:43 am IST Science and Technology

Initial analysis of the atmosphere of Mars from NASA's rover Curiosity has shown no sign of methane, a gas detected previously by remote sensors ... More

NASA rover finds old streambed on Mars

28 Sep, 2012, 2:24 pm IST Science and Technology

Mars rover Curiosity has found definitive proof that water once ran across the surface of Mars, US space agency NASA announced... More

Teaser video for Angry Birds Space: Red Planet unveiled

23 Aug, 2012, 6:11 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Apps

The Angry Birds are coming, and this time they are going far, far away to the Red Planet. Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, of the one of the most popular mobile game series has unveiled... More

Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'

09 Aug, 2012, 6:40 pm IST Apps 1 Comments

The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to California's Mojave ... More

Mars rover landing to be broadcast live

01 Aug, 2012, 12:09 pm IST Apps

NASA's Curiosity rover will land on the Martian surface at 0531 GMT Aug 6 and the landing process will be broadcast live from the New York City More

Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover scheduled for launch this week

23 Nov, 2011, 4:33 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Apps

NASA's ambitious trip to the red planet to check for itself, if life sustainance was possible will now see the light of the day, ... More