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

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 ...

On the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely ...

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 ...

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

Mars may have once had a vast, ice-free ocean, according to new evidence from China’s Zhurong rover. Using ground-penetrating ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Mars, the next frontier in space exploration, still poses many questions for scientists. The planet was once more hospitable, ...

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