NASA Scientists told reporters on Tuesday that their latest findings from the Mars rover Curiosity prove the planet once had what it takes to sustain life.

“We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you [...]

OK enough already, NASA has damn well proved there was once water on Mars — and plenty of it. Now what?

“This image from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows inclined layering known as cross-bedding in an outcrop called “Shaler,” indicative of sediment transport in stream flows. Currents mold the sediments into small underwater dunes that [...]

Nasa’s Mars Science Laboratory — NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to [...]

By polluting Mars’ atmosphere like we do our own, can we thicken its atmosphere and basically create one like on Earth? If so we would raise the temperature enough to live on it, melt the ice for water, and be able to farm, providing oxygen through photosynthesis.

Scientists call it terraforming, the hypothetical [...]

[Update 1pm] — Mars rover finds complex chemicals but no organic compounds … yet (NBC News) … And, for those Mayan worry worts out there, NASA says world won’t end in 2012 (ABC News)

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has sparked the curiosity of the media and the blogosphere, with widespread speculation [...]

LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — Scientists say NASA’s newest Mars rover has found signs that a stream once flowed across the surface near the site where it landed.

Curiosity touched down in a crater near the Martian equator last month. The red planet today is dusty and dry but scientists think it was once warmer [...]