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

Recent discoveries have unearthed clear evidence of liquid water on Mars, dating back to 4 billion years ago. This revelation ...

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.

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's left.

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 ...

An artist's impression of the Mars Express spacecraft probing the southern hemisphere of the planet. Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars’ south pole, scientists have ...

Massive volcanic eruptions billions of years ago may have made it snow on Mars, leaving thick buried ice near the planet’s equator.

The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have been put there by dramatic ...

Could ancient microbes still be hiding on Mars—preserved for millions of years in ice? A new NASA and Penn State study ...

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The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it’s telling us something about what the planet’s ...

Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars’ south pole, scientists have detected a 12-mile-wide span of briny water, a large, stable reservoir akin to lakes buried beneath the ...