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Music on Mars: New will.i.am Song to Rock the Red Planet This Afternoon
The Black Eyed Peas singer will debut his new track Tuesday afternoon from the surface of Mars, played via the Curiosity rover.
WATCH: High-Definition Footage of Curiosity Rover Landing on Mars
NASA has upped its game, releasing new high-definition footage that allows us to plummet to the craggy surface of Mars just as Curiosity saw it. Except we can do...
How One Family Switched Over to Martian Time
Time to stop griping about daylight savings time. At least you’re not on Mars time. When NASA’s newest Mars Rover, Curiosity, landed on the red planet about two...
Live From Mars
The folks in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ate a lot of peanuts in the minutes leading up to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars...
Still More Robot Company for Mars
Even before the Curiosity Mars rover fully gets to work, NASA is planning its newest mission to the Red Planet.
India Seeing Red Over Costly Mission to Mars
India kicked off its 65th year of independence this week by unveiling ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars by the end of next year. Standing beneath the...
What the Curiosity Rover Can Teach Us About Mars — And Earth
Communicating with a Mars probe can be a little like talking to the dead. Depending upon how far apart Mars and Earth are at any given moment, it will take...
Mars Landing: The 7 Most Adorkable Moments From The NASA Control Room
For us, watching NASA's geek heroes celebrate was almost more fun than the landing itself.
WATCH: Curiosity Rover’s Harrowing Descent onto the Surface of Mars
Stop-motion images give a glimpse of the final two-and-a-half minutes of the landing process, in which the one-ton rover as large as a compact car slowed from...
Mars Rover Curiosity Lands Safely on the Red Planet
Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA‘s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorms into reality late Sunday, safely...
Seeing Red: 40 Years of Exploration on Mars
Four decades of innovation have dramatically shaped our perceptions of Mars – from the first grainy images to 360-degree panoramas in color. TIME’s photo editors...
An Inside Look at the Mars Curiosity Rover
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission is preparing to set down a large, mobile laboratory, the rover Curiosity, using precision landing technology that makes...
How to Experience the Curiosity Rover’s Mars Landing Online
Early Monday morning, the Curiosity rover will attempt to land on Mars. Luckily, NASA is making it pretty easy to follow along online.
The Coolest Mars Landing Ever Attempted
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...
Mission to Mars: 8 Amazing Tech Tools Aboard NASA’s Curiosity Rover
Assuming Curiosity -- aka the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL -- survives the 354-million mile journey, here's a look at some of the technology it'll deploy...
An Elephant on Mars? At Least According to This NASA Photo
NASA managed to snag this unique picture of an elephant-shaped lava flow on Mars in the Elysium Planitia sector of the planet.
