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 ...

Looking for Martian Life Beneath the Ice The researchers focused on the potential for photosynthetic life to exist beneath ...

By 3.6 billion years ago, Mars should have become too cold for liquid water, but something kept the rivers flowing.

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the ...

“Instead, we think the water came from the melting of nearby subsurface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost ...

Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river ...

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Microbial alien life could be found inside ice on the surface of Mars, according to a new study. It is almost certainly impossible to live on the surface of Mars. It is hit by high levels of ...

If you had the right instruments, a little bit of that layer could teach you a lot about Mars. You could scoop out the ice and hold it in your hands. You could watch as it vaporized into the ...

The paper, led by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Peter Buhler, describes how 3.6 billion years ago, carbon dioxide froze out of Mars' atmosphere and deposited on top of a water ice ...

Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars. What they believe to be a lake sits under the planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) across.