Scientists are now able to better explain why Mars’s residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft – the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the ...

It turns out Earth isn’t the only planet with polar caps, as Mars has both a north and south polar cap, but instead of being made of frozen water, these caps are made of frozen carbon dioxide, since ...

Why it's so special: This week, researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) shared one of the most beautiful images of dunes on the surface of Mars ever taken. The team snapped the image using ...

Scientists using radar data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age recorded in the planet’s north polar ice cap. The new results agree ...

An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. An international team of researchers has revealed new ...

Simultaneous infrared and visible images taken by the camera system on NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft show the martian south polar cap in late summer. The black areas in the infrared image are at a ...

A newly released image from ESA’s Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet’s summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. A ...

Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara Sea of Saharan 'star dunes' clashes with otherworldly terrain where 2 countries meet Soar through a ...

An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, ...