Just before dawn on May 2, a camera 240 million kilometers from Earth caught a moment that seemed almost Earth-like: clouds ...

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

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down in Jezero Crater in 2021, scientists expected to find rocks laid down by an ...

The researchers posit that the volcano could have supported conditions favorable for life in the once-watery Jezero crater.

Georgia Tech scientists have uncovered evidence that a mountain on the rim of Jezero Crater—where NASA's Perseverance Rover ...

Volcanoes on Mars might be more widespread than previously thought, and this has an impact on the planet's past habitability.

Scientists have discovered that a large mountain on the edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater is likely a volcano—a finding that could ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

The Curiosity rover is slowly making its way up Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall mountain on Mars. Mountains are useful to study as their steep slopes can reveal layers of material laid down over time ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars.

A team of scientists recently discovered frozen water in an unlikely place on Mars: 13.5 miles above the surface, nestled near the peak of our Solar System’s largest mountain, Olympus Mons ...

Visibility atop the mountain was less than one-sixteenth of a mile — or just over 100 yards. Meanwhile on Mars, temperatures on the surface this week reached a balmy high of 16 degrees with a ...