Gale Crater, which is near the Martian equator, offers access to a wide range of rock strata, including sulfates and phyllosilicates in a mountain three miles (5 kilometers) high.

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Craters are commonly formed when a planet comes into violent contact with extra-planetary objects, and Gale crater is no exception; astronomers believe the crater was formed by an impact event ...

Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for answers.

NASA's Curiosity rover explored Mars' Gale Crater, finding "boxwork" patterns and evidence of ancient waterways, providing clues about the red planet's watery past.

The new images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover raises fresh questions about how the Martian surface was changing ...

Previous observations by the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012 and is exploring Gale Crater about 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, revealed evidence of shallow streams rather than ...

Curiosity has spent over a decade in the Gale Crater, the Martian landmark in which it landed in 2012. The 100-mile-wide crater was formed by an asteroid impact some 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago.