One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

NASA considering a number of designs for its future Mars colonists, from 3D-printed habitats to structures grown from ...

Dubbed the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons stands at a height of 72,000 feet (13.6 miles). Located in the ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

RBC-Ukraine dwells on incredible places on Mars that tourists could see with their own eyes, citing Space.com, a news website ...

Olympus Mons And no trip to Mars would be complete without a visit to Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system. It covers a region the size of Arizona. It's three times as tall as ...

A new study, published in IMA Fungus, reveals that lichens not only survive but also function in environments similar to those on the red planet. Such a discovery flies in the face of previously-held ...

Mars has been born afresh in the human mind ... and wildly rapid swings from dusty and warm to cold and clear. (At the summit of Olympus Mons, for instance, the typical daily high is 40 degrees ...

As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...