I f 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 ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

In the coming decades, missions to explore Mars will determine whether the Red Planet is fit for human beings to […] ...

Scientists discovered a massive ice sheet under Mars's Medusae Fossae, enough to cover the planet in water. This find could reshape Mars exploration, colonization, and climate theories.

Researchers believe that Mars might be home to ice deposits outside of its poles that surpass the volume contained in the ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts. This image was stitched together from a series of photos from the Viking Orbiter — one of the communications relay stations ...

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

I am particularly interested in polar ice caps and their interactions with planetary atmospheres. For example, the polar deposits of Mars record striking climate changes driven by seasonal cycles, ...

There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground. Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice in ...

Dragon and the crew will launch to a 90° circular orbit from Florida, and travel to ~440 km above Earth to explore the polar regions of our planet": SpaceX ...