An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

The strange formation was spotted in a region of the Red Planet known as Cydonia. Cydonia is close to where scientists ...

I n 1976, the American Viking 1 Orbiter spotted something very peculiar on the surface of Mars. There among the many lumps ...

The shapes of the Earth can lead to mysterious curiosities. On this occasion, thanks to Google Maps. Because the satellite mapping tool has allowed us to discover a striking figure ...

The Antarctic 'alien' was spotted by a social media user looking at satellite imagery of the area, with some speculating it ...

The study employed high-resolution images and data captured by several Mars space missions like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and European ... NASA's Viking 1 in 1976 landed on such a vast ...

Busà Photography / Getty Images Many people believe that being wealthy means having a nice house, a late-model car, and a summer cottage, but the kind of money possessed by the wealthiest 1% of ...

One of the Red Planet’s features is known as the Martian dichotomy, which describes the sharp contrast between its southern and northern hemispheres. Around one-third of the planet's northern ...

Chryse Planitia was the landing site of NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 and is a vast lowland region ... data from the HiRISE and CRISM instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, as well as ...

Mars' contrasting hemispheres tell a story of its geological evolution. The southern highlands are ancient, heavily cratered, and magnetised, dating back to the era when Mars had a global magnetic ...