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 ...

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

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' Gale Crater may not have been so wet after all, a new study suggests. NASA's Curiosity rover touched down inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale in August 2012, on a mission to assess ...

Gale Crater, a rocky scar from a meteor that punched into Martian terrain between 3.8 and 3.5 billion years ago, is one of the best time capsules researchers have of the red planet’s tumultuous ...

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 ...

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

Gale Crater, the landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover, has long been hypothesized to have once held a large standing body of water. In a teleconference this afternoon, NASA announced new ...

Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater, which is estimated to be between 3.8 billion and 3.6 billion years old, since August 2012. In mid-September 2014, ...

Gale Crater might as well have been known as Gale Lake. That is, millions of years ago. And if Martians spoke Earthling English. Using images captured by Mars Curiosity Rover, who landed in that ...

The Red Planet's past may be more blue than we thought. A new study based on data collected by the Curiosity Mars rover suggests that Gale Crater, where the rover landed in 2012, may have once ...