But arachnophobes have nothing to fear, even if the Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that the Red Planet has succumbed to an infestation of creepy crawlies. Rather, a strange chemical ...

The U.S. space agency released the image April 24, which the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped earlier this year. At the time, Curiosity was in the middle of a slow trek across the surface ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on ...

India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as MOM, has ended after eight years – even though it was designed for a six-month lifespan, the Indian Space Research Organization announced this week.

1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left ...

As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back.A camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, called the High Resolution Imaging ...

The ESA said in a news release that one of its Mars Express orbiter captured images of the "spiders," which are really just small, dark-colored features that begin to be formed when sunshine falls ...