Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red ...

Can a 13-year-old Mars rover beat out its younger, more sophisticated siblings? NASA’s Curiosity is showing it’s possible, with the right engineering wizardry, that age does not have to stand in the ...

The Curiosity rover has entered its teenage years and achieved higher levels of efficiency. Ever since its landing on Mars on ...

There’s no electrical power grid in outer space, so the electrical power subsystem needs to deliver the spacecraft’s ...

With its relatively long half-life of 432 years and more accessible production routes, americium-241 presents a compelling alternative to plutonium-238, which is more expensive and harder to produce ...