NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire ...

Unusual Mars mishap: A 29-pound rock stuck to Curiosity's drill halted operations for six days in Gale Crater. Engineers' careful tactics: NASA teams tried vibrations, tilting, and rotating the drill ...

The team recorded a total of 478 different organisms, including comb jellies, arrowworms, snailfish and shrimp. In one clip, ...

NASA Curiosity rover got its robotic arm stuck in a Mars rock it was drilling into, spending nearly a week to break free.

Unusual Mars mishap: A 28.6-pound rock stuck to Curiosity's drill during sampling, marking the first such occurrence in the rover's 13-year mission. Six-day recovery: Engineers freed the drill on May ...

But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity ...

On April 25, the Curiosity rover drilled into a Mars rock nicknamed "Atacama" and accidentally yanked the entire thing out of ...