Craters are commonly formed when a planet comes into violent contact with extra-planetary objects, and Gale crater is no exception; astronomers believe the crater was formed by an impact event ...

A new study suggests that Mars' Gale Crater hosted a handful of small lakes rather than a single big one in the ancient past. The star shows where NASA's Curiosity rover touched down in August 2012.

It sounds a little odd—a mountain in the middle of an impact crater. Wouldn't the impact have smashed it flat? Some scientists believe the 96 mile wide crater filled in with sediments over time ...

NASA has shared an incredible video touring of the surface of Mars, as captured by the Curiosity rover. The rover has been exploring the Gale Crater area since it landed in 2012, and the images it ...

Gale Crater was once Gale Lake, a brimming body of water that could have given rise to microbial life in the first billion years of Martian history, before the planet lost most of its atmosphere ...

It's a lizard, it's a cat, it's a … whimsical Martian rock! The Mars Curiosity rover recently got a glimpse of this cute little rock feature in Gale Crater, where the rover has been exploring ...

In Oregon's Crater Lake lies a tiny island that appears to take on some spooky qualities when the weather gets cloudy or foggy.

Michael Thorpe is pictured in Iceland in 2019. Thorpe led a study that found Gale Crater on Mars once had a climate similar to southwest Iceland, where temperatures generally remain below 38 degrees.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a breathtaking panorama of the inside of the Gale Crater, as snapped by the Curiosity Rover. To celebrate the Rover’s ninth — ninth! — year ...

The latest of those installments, Curiosity, has explored Mars’s Gale Crater, a 96-mile-wide barren bowl on the planet’s surface. That crater may have once been a lake, according to an ...

A comparison of chemical and climate weathering of sedimentary rock in Mars' Gale Crater indicate the region's mean temperature billions of years ago was akin to current conditions on Iceland.