Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

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 ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the search for alien life on the Red Planet. One of the most exciting planetary discoveries ever ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

(Credit: Hai Liu, Guangzhou University, China) According to the study authors, beaches indicate that Mars once had a large, ice-free ocean, back when the planet likely had a warmer and thicker ...