“Early Mars has historically been thought of as either ‘cold and dry’ or ‘warm and wet,’” says Alberto Fairén, an astrobiologist at the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid and at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...

The search for extraterrestrial life continues, with Mars remaining a primary focus due to its geological features and past evidence of water. While no living organisms have been found, compounds and ...

A new method to detect life in ancient rocks could help analyze Mars samples and determine if life once existed on the red ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...