The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the ...

Everyone knows that Earth is capable of providing beautiful, snowy landscapes, but it isn't unique in that. It snows on Mars, ...

The iridescent cloud reveals new clues about ice formation in the Martian atmosphere (no little green men, sorry).

Except for the scraps frozen into the polar caps, its water was lost to space or stored away as subsurface ice. And this all happened billions of years ago. The early Mars had been dynamic ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

Some of Mars’ CO2 geysers erupt and create dark spots as large as 1 km across. They are fueled by considerable power and can ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators of whether Mars was habitable in the distant past.

NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...

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 ...

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 ...