New footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to remove a rock, dubbed Atacama, that became stuck on a drill for six days.

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

On April 25, 2026, NASA’s Curiosity rover pressed its drill into a Martian rock nicknamed Atacama and got more than it bargained for. Instead of boring a neat hole into what looked like solid ground, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and—after waving the arm and running the drill a few times—finally detached ...

NASA's Curiosity rover became the center of attention after an unexpected drilling incident on the Martian surface. During a routine sampling task, the Curiosity rover accidentally lifted a large Mars ...

NASA has released a pair of sweeping new panoramas from its two active Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, offering a vivid look at how dramatically different regions of the Red Planet can be — ...

Curiosity found organic molecules on Mars that were so compelling that scientists used a rare process to analyze them.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been roaming Mars for nearly 14 years, hunting for signs that it once hosted environments that could have allowed ancient microbes to thrive. But on April 25, the rover ran ...