Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be ...

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

A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA's Insight lander. The top 5 kilometers of the crust appear to be dry, but a new study provides evidence for a zone of fractured rock 11.5-20 km below ...

Then, very soon after formation, its interior separated out into a metallic core and a solid rocky mantle and crust. Since then, very little seems to have disturbed Mars’ interior – unlike ...

On Mars, such a process can occur naturally ... It also required a 5 to 10 percent concentration of perchlorate to create a solid salt crust. They pumped neon gas up beneath the crust, as a ...

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 ...

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the possibility these samples contain life, which could have unforeseen consequences.

Scientists Ikuo Katayama from Hiroshima University and Yuya Akamatsu from the Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics ...

The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per year. Mars's upper mantle is stiff ... of Earth and other rocky planets may appear proverbially 'rock solid', but ...

Life on Mars? Planet Earth has turned up tantalizing evidence that there could be after researchers found dense concentrations of microbial cells in cracks of ancient crust deep below the seabed.

the layer between its crust and its core. The small lumps of rocks striking Mars can produce seismic events deeper than previously known, the researchers announced Monday. “We used to think the ...