"Before Hubble, no generation ever had access to unimaginably vibrant views of space, stretching almost all the way back to ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Mars Express captures images of Acheron Fossae, revealing the Red Planet’s split terrain—ancient cratered highlands and ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Overview map of the Acheron Fossae north of Olympus Mons Acheron Fossae features a typical horst-and-graben surface structure, formed due to crustal deformation during Mars's Noachian period, more ...

Why it's so special: Something strange happened late at night on January 13, 2025. Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf ...

Mars contains volcanic plains formed by past eruptions and inactive shield volcanoes that are much more massive than Earth’s volcanoes; Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the entire Solar System, ...

Mars Express has revealed the dynamic landscape of Mars, showcasing both rugged terrain and smoother, younger plains on the ...