The Mars water debate continues. A team of scientists suggests vast oceans of water may not be locked within the Red Planet's ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

"With Mars sample return on the horizon and the prospect ... Good targets are salt deposits and polar ground ice." This new research has been published in Icarus. Join our Space Forums to keep ...

The study also showed that the soil on Mars could keep ice near the surface in the middle and lower areas because water vapor moves more slowly there. This means the soil helps trap water for a ...

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.

Mars was once wet, with rivers and lakes and ... That liquid water has now all gone, either frozen into polar ice caps or as permafrost beneath the surface, or evaporated into the atmosphere ...