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 ...

Various volcanic features can be found on the rocky planets neighboring Earth. Mars contains volcanic plains formed by past eruptions and inactive shield volcanoes that are much more massive than ...

No signs of viscous flow patterns are seen here. Researchers interpret this deposit as lava flows from Alba Patera, one of the large shield volcanoes on Mars, located east of Acheron Fossae. The lava ...

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 ...

Volcanoes erupted at the ... On the left of this image is the shattered heat shield from the Opportunity rover as it descended toward Mars. On the right is another part of the heat shield as ...

Christopher Meloni, the legendary "Law & Order: SVU" star, is saddened by the passing of a show icon. Ted Kotcheff, a ...

There are actually a bunch of massive volcanoes on Mars. The biggest ones— like Olympus Mons—are shield volcanoes. Sometimes we think of volcanoes as super steep, magma-filled mountains. But shield ...

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has revealed new clues about Mars' volcanic past. While most people searching for signs of alien ...