The Perseverance Mars rover has collected a rock sample on Mars unlike any other it has picked up so far. "My 26th sample, known as 'Silver Mountain,' has textures unlike anything we've seen before," ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars. Using data from ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic ...

MARS HILL - The town of Mars Hill celebrated the latest additions to its Bailey Mountain Preserve Smith Farm in an Oct. 11 ribbon-cutting ceremony with local partners. The Mars Hill Town Lodge and ...

Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars. It is the tallest mountain in space. It is almost three times higher than Mount ...

A new bathroom facility has been unveiled at the Bailey Mountain Preserve in Mars Hill. The project was a collaboration between the town, the Rotary Club of Madison County, and the Appalachian Barn ...

A mountain on Mars that is almost as tall as Mount Denali in Alaska appears to be surprisingly light, scientists reported Thursday. For more than four years, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring ...

Hatley Pointe ski resort in Mars Hill, North Carolina, is developing a mountain bike park set to open next spring. The park will feature nine trails, ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert, and ...

Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as ...

When I was a kid, I dreamed of Mars. I wanted to go there, see its strange sights, meet whatever strange beings might live there. Sure, I dreamed of other planets, too, both here in our solar system ...