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 ...

For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same ...

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 ...

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

China’s Zhurong rover used ground-penetrating radar to find signs of beaches beneath Mars’ surface, adding evidence to the ...

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.

Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

The ExTeM research group at IIT Madras has developed water-free concrete to aid construction of habitats on Mars. The team of ...