Captured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) high-resolution stereo camera, Mars Express, the image close up of the planet’s south polar ice cap extends across its cratered highlands to the Hellas ...

Springtime on Earth has lots of trickling as water ice gradually melts. But on Mars, everything happens with a bang,” said ...

The planet Mars continues to reveal intriguing mysteries, particularly the potential presence of buried ice in its equatorial ...

Why it's so special: This week, researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) shared one of the most beautiful images of dunes on the surface of Mars ever taken. The team snapped the image using ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Peter Buhler/PSI A lone researcher may have figured out how Mars was able to support ...

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.

Changes in Mars’ axial tilt (obliquity) drive shifts between polar ice caps at low obliquity and widespread mid-latitude glaciation at high obliquity. These cycles result in ice accumulating inside ...

Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of deep groundwater could cover the entire planet to a depth of between 1 and 2 kilometers, or about a mile. A ...

Why does Mars look purple, yellow and orange in ESA's stunning new satellite image? NASA spots Martian volcano twice the height of Mount Everest bursting through the morning clouds: Space photo of the ...