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 ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ... indicate the ice cap is young—well more than any other large-scale feature seen on the planet.

Together, the group has been able to determine the Red Planet’s interior structure and assess the age of its northern polar ice cap. The north pole of Mars is covered by a 1000-kilometre-wide, ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... Not so today: Though water ice abounds under the Martian surface and in its polar ice caps, there are no large bodies of liquid water ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...

We have wondered for centuries whether our neighbouring planet is home to life ... There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground.

Why the fascination with Mars? Here's everything you ... It's about half our planet's size, has variable seasons, polar ice caps, and plains and gullies possibly shaped by water flow.

The color red and the planet Mars go ... seas that used to cover Mars, becoming incorporated into the underlying rocks. Volcanic activity could also have triggered ice-melting events, further ...