Young Mars would have been a staggering place to explore. The Red Planet was covered in flowing rivers of both water and lava. At the time, a series of four volcanoes — Olympus Mons and the ...

Mars' Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next ...

New evidence suggests Olympus Mons was once bordered by a Martian ocean that played an important role in landmark streaks on the planet's surface. The case for Martian volcanoes soaring above ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express mission continues to deliver breathtaking images of the Red Planet, with one of its latest photographs capturing a remarkable view that includes Mars ...

Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars. Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters on July 24, recent work led by a CNRS researcher1 shows that the giant Olympus Mons ...

Our very own solar system bestows some of the most awe-inspiring geologic wonders we’ve ever seen, and this includes Olympus Mons on Mars, which is a shield volcano and holds the distinction of being ...

At 13.6 miles (21.9 kilometers) tall, Olympus Mons climbs so high into the Martian sky that its caldera pokes out of Mars' atmosphere and into space. Olympus Mons is joined by three other large ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests. The research identifies an ...

Evidence of a catastrophic landslide on the bottom portion of the giant Martian volcano Olympus Mons. Credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A spacecraft orbiting Mars has captured ...

The Olympus Mons towers 16 miles, 25 kilometres above the surrounding plans and stretches across 374 mile, 601 kilometres, which is roughly the size of the state of Arizona. If you ever thought ...