The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

From UFOs buried in the Sahara Desert to mysterious doorways in Antarctica, Google Maps users have made dozens of wild discoveries over the years.  But the latest sighting is one of the strangest yet.

NASA’s Viking 1 Orbitersent back a series of images from Mars that would spark one of the most enduring mysteries in space exploration: the Face on Mars. Captured in the Cydonia region, this peculiar ...

When the twin Viking landers arrived at Mars, each descended from an orbiter that used cameras to map Mars in a way Earth-based telescopes couldn’t. They began capturing images before the landers even ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Keen-eyed internet sleuths have spotted what appears to be a massive skull lurking in the waters of a Canadian Island.

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.

These frigid conditions are essential for the formation of CO2 ice, which plays a crucial role in creating the Martian spiders. How Big Is Mars Compared to Earth? A composite Viking orbiter image of ...

The NASA Odyssey orbiter, which launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral, snapped a 1st-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above the clouds before dawn.

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has delivered the first-ever close-up images of the Sun's enigmatic polar regions.