If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made ...

If you look at a photo of Mars, you'll mostly see red. The rust-colored world is known for its oxidized look, but if you dig down into the dirt, Mars gets a lot more interesting. The red planet is ...

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 ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

At first glance, Mars appears very different from Earth ... It's a plane near the South Pole, covered in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers ...

Using satellite images gathered in 2016 and 2021, the authors created 3D maps of crevasses across the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second biggest ice mass on Earth. Chudley et al. found that increases ...

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 ...

Current ice deposits on Mars, their implications for recent environmental change, and their potential for future sampling and in situ resource utilisation by human/robotic missions. Landforms produced ...