Scientists have discovered a new way to uncover what lies beneath the surfaces of planets like Mars by studying the debris ...

For Isaac Smith of Toronto's York University, one of the most fascinating subjects in springtime is the Texas-size ice cap at Mars' north pole. Etched into the icy dome are swirling troughs ...

In a recent paper, researchers proposed searching for photosynthetic bacteria embedded in the snow and ice around Mars' mid-latitudes. Using "radiatively habitable zones" on Earth as a template ...

But unlike Mars, there were only pockets of little granules ... TALDICE, or the TALos Dome Ice CorE, is a European ice core ...

(CNN) -- Streams of ice rather than heavy flooding could have shaped long channels that riddle the surface of Mars, according to a new NASA-funded report. Certain channels on the red planet bear a ...

Radar scans reveal up to 2.2 miles of subsurface ice beneath Mars’s Medusae Fossae, per Geophysical Research Letters. The formation was long thought to be loose ash or dust—but its low density ...