For years, scientists have debated whether Mars could host liquid water beneath its icy surface. Recent radar findings, particularly from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding ...

Hints of buried water on Mars have swung between tantalizing and controversial, but one idea keeps resurfacing: lakes could persist if they sit beneath a protective lid of ice. Instead of needing a ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

In a recent study, a team of researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Penn State suggested that future missions to Mars search for microbes or their remains in that planet’s ice, rather ...

Changes in Mars’ axial tilt (obliquity) drive shifts between polar ice caps at low obliquity and widespread mid-latitude glaciation at high obliquity. These cycles result in ice accumulating inside ...