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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s been a generally-agreed fact for years that Mars is hiding significant ice deposits.

As well as discovering other cool things like how many meteorites hit Mars every year, the lander's data can be used to tell us more about the planet's crust, mantle, and core. Previous studies ...

"Even the largest floods we modeled couldn't reach far enough to explain all the rootless cones we see." New data is challenging what scientists previously knew about one of the youngest ...

One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice cores ... crucial samples from Mars is a complex endeavor.

In this session the children will start to build a dance using themes and ideas based on the planet Mars; they will use ... travelling between the shapes. Ice shapes: Making an angular group ...

Things are looking up for digging deep on Mars. Progress is palpable on how best to extract subsurface ice to generate drinkable water, rocket fuel and other useful resources on the Red Planet.

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south pole that are visible only in springtime on the Red Planet. This image ...

"The current and past locations of water ice are an important piece of the history of Mars," Colin Dundas, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey told Space.com. "Understanding this ...