Furthermore, they “are similar to the signals we see from Mars’s polar caps, which we know to be very ice rich.” If it melted, it would cover the entire planet with “a layer of water 1.5 ...

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 ...

Broquet and his team decided to measure glacial isostatic rebound on Mars under the northern ice cap. It's about 1,000 kilometers wide and 3 kilometers thick. They studied its formation by ...

European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

The discovery of the bands of water ice locked away under the Martian surface was made using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mars Climate Sounder instruments and the Mars Odyssey’s Thermal ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

Mars has been a compelling venue for astrobiology for decades. The team’s work indicates that liquid water—necessary for life as we know it—may persist under the Martian surface ...

Gravity will be a challenge — scientists are worried that Mars lacks the "pull" to keep whatever atmosphere is created. Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice (which is ...

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 ...