The mysterious anomaly is lurking beneath Tharsis Montes – a vast volcanic region which holds the largest volcano in the solar system: Olympus Mons. The new findings are so significant that they could ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

At 13.6 miles (21.9 kilometers) tall, Olympus Mons climbs so high into the Martian ... mantle and deep interior made by NASA's Mars InSight mission, the new findings reveal the complexities ...

By integrating the gravity data with information from NASA’s InSight mission about Mars’s crust ... structures in the northern regions but also offered new insights into Olympus Mons, the largest ...

Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). Right click any image to save it or open a larger version in a new ...

(Credit: Root et al.) “The NASA InSight mission has given us vital new information about the hard outer layer of Mars,” Dr. Root explains. “This means we need to rethink how we understand the support ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid ...

Robotic Martians can see blue Earth in Mars' sky. The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on the Red Planet, recently snapped an image of Mars ...

The NASA InSight mission has provided us with crucial new data about Mars' rigid outer layer. This forces us to rethink our understanding of how Olympus Mons and its surrounding region are supported.

People at NASA headquarters take deep breaths when the words “First Story” appear in their email. Late this spring, Curt Niebur, the lead scientist for flight programs, received such a message.

Photo Credit: ESOL. Jorda et al., P. Vernazza et al. For a long time, it was believed that Olympus Mons on Mars was the tallest mountain in our solar system. That’s until the discovery of the Vesta ...

The discovery was made by using satellite orbits to form a picture of Mars' gravitational field, paired with on-the-ground seismic data collected by NASA's InSIGHT lander ... which may be feeding into ...