WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...

Scientists believe the MFF’s ice, protected by layers of dust or ash, could reveal clues about Mars' ancient, water-rich past ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

I f you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter ...

Scientists discovered a massive ice sheet under Mars's Medusae Fossae, enough to cover the planet in water. This find could ...

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

Except for the scraps frozen into the polar caps, its water was lost to space or stored away as subsurface ice. And this all happened billions of years ago. The early Mars had been dynamic ...

There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground. Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice in ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts. This image was stitched together from a series of photos from the Viking Orbiter — one of the communications relay stations ...

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 ...

Mars and Earth share many similarities, including geographic features like polar ice caps, volcanoes, and canyons. Similarities between Earth and Mars also include a roughly 24-hour day ...