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.

Mastcam captured colourful images of a trough and a nearby displaced block nicknamed “Ouro.” Scientists suspect it could be ...

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 ...

"Our work is a new piece of evidence that suggests that Mars was once a much more complex and active planet than it is now." ...

Since its dramatic touchdown on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has inched its way toward Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-high peak in the middle of Gale Crater, finally arriving at its base late ...

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

NASA’s Curiosity rover has explored Gale Crater for 833 Martian days, or Sols. And it has found evidence, written in red rocks and sand, of lakes and streams on a warmer, wetter, habitable Mars ...

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

Before Curiosity landed on Mars, scientists proposed that Gale Crater had filled with layers of sediments. Some hypotheses were "dry," implying that the sediments accumulated from wind-blown dust ...

Gale Crater on Mars had the right physical and chemical conditions for life for 700 million years — and for part of that history, held a lake that could have hosted a wide variety of microbial life.

Since 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater on Mars and investigating whether the Red Planet ever had the environmental conditions to support microbial life.

NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet’s Gale Crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Curiosity, is scheduled to launch late this ...