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Halo (Comets and Starry Sky Edition). Credit: Peter Greig (St1nkyPete on Flickr) What a stunning shot! It took much of the night, but astrophotographer Peter Greig has now given this angel a halo, in the form of star tra...

Eek, spiders! All right, so it’s not actually little green arachnids we’re talking about here, but they are definitely spidery features. Called araneiform terrain, these clusters of radially-branching crack...

In this latest update from the MSL team, Ashwin Vasavada, the Deputy Project Scientist, explains how Curiosity has been monitoring the winds and radiation levels in Gale Crater. Curiosity has also been looking for dust d...