The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

For scientists and space researchers, the Atacama Desert isn’t just any stretch of earth, it's Earth’s closest analog to the ...

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Drag your mouse or move your phone to pan around within this 360-degree view to explore the boxwork patterns on Mars that ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, looking southwest toward the distant large boxwork structures in the Uyuni ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...