Giant ice towers that formed next to steaming volcanic vents in the freezing atmosphere of Mars may be the best place to look for life on the Red Planet, an Australian geologist said Monday. Nick ...

The northeastern rim region of Hellas impact basin, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, contained numerous ephemeral lakes throughout Mars’s history, a new study reveals. A new paper published ...

This image reveals bouldery patches on the floor of the giant Hellas impact basin. The boulders are often crudely aligned. Maybe these boulders were deposited or sculpted by flowing ice in the form of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images of Mars, providing crisp new observations of a damaged planet. Using the scope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), astronomers got a new look ...

A geologic mapping project using NASA spacecraft data offers new evidence that expansive lakes existed long ago on Mars. The research points to a series of sedimentary deposits consistent with what ...

They call it Hellas Planitia, and to our best knowledge, it occupies a place in the top five largest impact craters in the Solar System. It’s also home to “an enigmatic formation” called banded ...

Hellas Depression (IMAGE) University of Texas at Austin Caption A depression located inside a crater on the edge of the Hellas basin region of Mars. New research suggests that the depression was ...