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File photo of a full moon. (credit: Getty Images)

Study: Traces Of Moon Water Came From Earth

U.S. astronauts have recently found that traces of water inside the moon actually came from the Earth.

2013/05/11

File photo of Mars rover Curiosity when it was still in the NASA labs (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Mars Rover Back In Action After Computer Problems

The Mars rover Curiosity is humming again after being sidelined by back-to-back computer problems.

2013/03/25

In this handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, and captured by NASA's Curiosity rover, a rock outcrop called Link pops out from a Martian surface that is elsewhere blanketed by reddish-brown dust, showing evidence for an ancient, flowing stream, Sept. 2, 2012. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via Getty Images)

NASA: Mars Could Have Supported Primitive Life

NASA scientists say tests on a Mars rock show the planet could have supported primitive life.

2013/03/12

Curiosity Sleeps As Solar Blast Races Toward Mars

NASA says the Curiosity rover is hunkering down after the sun unleashed a blast headed for Mars.

2013/03/06

Tycoon Proposes to Send Married Couple Around Mars

In less than five years, a married couple could be on their way toward Mars in an audacious but bare-bones private mission that would slingshot them around the Red Planet.

2013/02/27

NASA is planning manned missions to Mars. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

NASA Plans To Use Astronauts As Messengers To Mars

NASA’s future plans to explore Mars may end up using astronauts as space messengers.

2012/09/25

NASA Releases First High-Res Panoramic Image From Curiosity Rover On Mars

NASA has released the first high-resolution color mosaic from its Curiosity rover, showing for the very first time the geological environment around its landing site in Gale Crater on Mars.

2012/08/14

In this handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech, one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the evening of August 5 (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech via Getty Images)

Photos Illustrate Mars Rover’s Precise Landing

The robotic explorer Curiosity’s daring plunge through the pink skies of Mars was more than perfect. It landed with spectacular style, said a NASA scientist, describing the first images of its mechanical gymnastics.

2012/08/06

Curiosity Rover Touches Down On Mars

The Mars Science Laboratory silently raced toward its target Sunday, picking up speed as it closed in for a 13,200-mph plunge into the Red Planet’s atmosphere and an action-packed seven-minute descent required a rocket-powered “sky crane” to lower the one-ton nuclear-powered rover to the surface. It went off without a hitch.

2012/08/06