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

Unusual rock snag: On April 25, Curiosity’s drill lifted an entire rock, which became stuck to its drill sleeve — a first in the rover’s history. Six-day struggle: Multiple attempts to shake the rock ...

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.

While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ...

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