This plateau covers around 25% of Mars’ surface and is home to Olympus Mons. The region also includes the volcanoes Ascraeus ...

The tallest volcano in Mars' equator region, Mt. Olympus Mons, was recently discovered to have water frost forming around it, and it is now a massive phenomenon for researchers. The latest ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, rising an astonishing 21 kilometers high, nearly two and a half times taller than Mount Everest. But its true scale isn’t just about ...

Mars' Olympus Mons may have once been a volcanic island surrounded by an ocean nearly 4 miles deep, according to geological evidence found in the extinct volcano.

Olympus Mons dwarfs all of Earth’s mountains and volcanoes by large margins, measuring 435 miles (700 km) wide and 14 miles (22 km) high. For comparison, that’s about two and a half times as tall as ...

The Mars Express orbiter, a spacecraft managed by the European Space Agency, snapped images of landslides on Olympus Mons, the biggest volcano in our solar system.

Could a mountain as high as Olympus Mons on Mars (21.9 kilometres, more than double the height of Everest) be possible on our planet? Hillary Shaw Newport, Shropshire, UK ...

Olympus Mons on Mars, the highest peak in the solar system, may have been a volcanic island encircled by a vast ocean, which might have affected the planet's habitability, according to geological ...

A team of scientists recently discovered frozen water in an unlikely place on Mars: 13.5 miles above the surface, nestled near the peak of our Solar System’s largest mountain, Olympus Mons ...

Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 metres high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars.

Today, it’s a massive volcano on Mars—but it may have once been an island An escarpment around Olympus Mons appears similar to those around volcanic islands on Earth.

Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 metres high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars.