Extraterrestrial life is more likely to be lurking in Mars' ice than on its rocky surface, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. This is because of the ...

licenced under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Earth is protected by harmful radiation thanks to the magnetic field - which Mars does not have. But scientists have proposed that staying beneath thick ice could ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

This giant deposit might be hiding a frozen ocean under layers of ancient Martian dust. If that ice melted, scientists say, it could flood the entire surface of Mars in water nearly nine feet deep.

An ancient landscape hidden under the East Antarctic ice sheet for at least 14 million ... Ice Sheet is less well known than the surface of Mars,” Jamieson said in a statement.

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

“Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these ... it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.” During the study, the ...

So the announcement in 2018 of radar reflections coming from under the Martian southern ice ... The presence of water ice on Mars has been known for decades, and rovers have provided evidence ...

Lalich is the first author of "Small Variations in Ice Composition and Layer ... flowed on the surface of ancient Mars, including at a former river delta now under investigation by NASA's ...

This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. But let's rewind and review both sides of the story so far. The liquid-water-under-the-ice-cap debate started with the ...

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 ...