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, ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

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

SpaceX chief Elon Musk is fixated on sending manned missions to Mars and he wants the humanity to colonise the red planet in ...

The polar ice cap at the south pole is particularly bright, and wispy clouds are seen most clearly around the planet’s curved horizons. Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its ...

Mars was once wet, with rivers and lakes and even an ocean that existed on the Red Planet between about ... either frozen into polar ice caps or as permafrost beneath the surface, or evaporated ...