It can be a challenge to troubleshoot a computer when it's sitting on the desk in front of you. Trying to troubleshoot a computer system that is on another planet is infinitely more difficult. This is ...

After a week of suspended operations, NASA's Mars rover is back to investigating the secrets of the Red Planet After a week of suspended operations due to a computer glitch, NASA's Mars rover ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28. The rover ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will begin a "brain transplant" tomorrow (Aug. 11), a four-day operation that will bring a temporary halt to the robot's science activities. Curiosity is getting a major ...

Everyone’s favorite resident of Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover, is back in action after several weeks of diagnostic work. The rover has successfully drilled its eighteenth hole in the Mars surface, ...

200 million miles away, on the surface of the Red Planet, humankind's most advanced interplanetary endeavor -- Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity -- is attempting one of the most complex and dangerous ...