Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

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

Map of Utopia Planitia, Zhurong Mars rover landing site, and four possible ancient shorelines. [Photo/Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences] A team of Chinese and ...

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.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a massive ice deposit on Mars in a region previously thought to be ...

Networks of narrow channels lining the surface of Martian dunes, called “gullies,” have puzzled astronomers for decades. Now, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researchers ...

The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions on early Mars may have transported water ice to equatorial regions, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that these ...

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA’s twin Viking orbiters captured images of narrow, twisty columns of dust swirling their way across the Martian surface. The shadowy figures were later confirmed to be dust ...

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 ...