If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

Humans are determined to discover more details about Mars, Earth's neighboring planet, which seems to hide many secrets. So ...

For decades, scientists believed that Mars’ red color came from hematite, a type of iron oxide that forms under dry ...

Tohoku University researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water ...

and can be seen at the top of the images while water-ice clouds cross the sky beneath them in the opposite direction. These twilight clouds aren’t just a rare sight—they may be only capable of forming ...

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...

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 ...

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