A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100,000 orbits of the Red Planet. On a morning horizon in May, the ...

Fresh evidence of volcanic activity on Mars is reshaping how scientists think about the planet’s potential to host life, past or present. Instead of a cold, geologically dead world, Mars increasingly ...

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Arsia Mons once spewed molten rock across the surface of Mars, but some smaller volcanic features may have come from another source. (NASA/JPL/USGS/) Mars’s northern lowlands are dotted with tens of ...

A new study has highlighted the impact of reduced sulphur gases from ancient Martian volcanoes. The findings suggest that these gases could have contributed to a greenhouse effect and altered the ...

Simulations suggest ancient Martian volcanoes sent steam to the equator, where it froze into buried ice that may still exist and guide future exploration. The authors suggest that these eruptions ...