NASA’s Curiosity rover has gotten pretty familiar with the Martian terrain by now, capturing hundreds of photos of the red planet since it landed on Mars in 2012. But every now and then, the rover ...

New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ...

Rain will probably never fall on Mars’ giant volcano, Olympus Mons (our condolences to the MMC). But a glittering swath of frost covers the Martian mountaintop on chilly mornings, according to new ...

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, like ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been helping uncover the secrets of Mars since landing on the Red Planet in August 2012. It has drilled into rocks and soil and taken photos of odd features so that ...

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. Using data from ...

A mountain on Mars that is almost as tall as Mount Denali in Alaska appears to be surprisingly light, scientists reported Thursday. For more than four years, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring ...

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 ...