Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far ...

Do the ice caps on the southern pole of Mars bury a secret reservoir of liquid water? A signal detected by Mars Advanced ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...

Searching for water on Mars often feels like chasing a flicker of hope in a cold and quiet world. You read about dried ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter captured this view of Mars' south polar ice cap Feb. 25, 2015. Three years ...

Despite the excitement surrounding the radar signals, researchers caution that liquid water beneath Mars’ south polar ice would be difficult to maintain under the planet’s extreme cold. Without highly ...

The Perseverance rover found the strange rock near the rim of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometres) Jezero crater, which ...

Mars South Polar Layered Deposits on top of Martian Smectites: The multi-kilometer thick south polar ice cap has a base that is composed, at least partially, of a common type of clays. These clays are ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by a mysterious signal coming from the icy south pole of Mars. In 2018, a radar instrument called MARSIS, aboard a European Mars orbiter, detected a very ...

New Glenn rocket on November 13, carrying NASA’s twin Escapade Mars orbiters. The identical probes will spend a year near ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...

Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...