For twelve years, we've watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian ...

Since then, it has traveled over many different surfaces on the Red Planet ... Recently, the Curiosity Rover was traveling ...

This is partly due to the planet's close proximity to its star, which also results in blistering surface temperatures ... that the universe has been forming rocky planets almost since its ...