If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter, warmer ...

A massive underground stash of water has just been discovered beneath one of Mars’s most enigmatic regions—the Medusae Fossae Formation—shedding new light on the Red Planet’s hidden potential. Buried ...

Scientists believe modern technology to be crucial in 'supporting sustained missions' on Mars.

An artist's impression of the Mars Express spacecraft probing the southern hemisphere of the planet. Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars’ south pole, scientists have ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of Mars as a dry and arid world. But it wasn't always this way. Where did the red ...

Seismic data collected by NASA suggests the amount of water hidden in the red planet's crust would cover its surface in a global ocean. Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red ...

This image, combining data from two instruments aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, depicts an orbital view of the north polar region of Mars. The ice-rich polar cap (the quasi-circular white area at ...

We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. If ...

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 ...

Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars’ south pole, scientists have detected a 12-mile-wide span of briny water, a large, stable reservoir akin to lakes buried beneath the ...