Mars is a dead world, showing the barest hints of geological activity today. But in the distant past, it was a tumultuous planet that spawned the largest volcano in the solar system. Olympus Mons ...

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Scientists got a rare look at the curving Martian landscape thanks to images captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the space agency announced Tuesday. NASA revealed multiple new panoramic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS For twelve years, we've watched Curiosity crawl its way over the ...

Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as ...

A graphic showing the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter flying above Mars. Credit: ESA / ATG medialab // Mars: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin What an extraterrestrial view. The long-lived Mars ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey robotic spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over two decades, is set to complete an impressive milestone on June 30: 100,000 orbits around the Red Planet. Since its ...

NASA found the boulders on what has been dubbed "Mount Washburn," a rocky field on the Jezero crater, where an ancient lake is believed to have been located billions of years ago. The name "Mount ...

In an unofficial sense, I would like to dub today (April 10) as "View a Planet Day." In the early morning hours will be two planets that will appear very close to each other and then later that same ...