Two European Mars orbiters spied a variety of cryptic surface features poking up through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring rolled into the region. The newly released photos ...

"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface," said researcher Aditya Khuller.

Martian gullies have often been found to contain dusty ice. These false-color images of gullies in Mars’ Terra Sirenum show streaks of ice (white) spread along some of the deepest trenches ...

Discover the shocking new find on Mars: green stains on rocks have NASA scientists puzzled and excited. What could this mean ...

The white areas on the edges of these gullies in the Martian region of Terra Sirenium, shown in an image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are thought to be areas of dusty ice similar to ...

Images of the Red Planet taken by NASA's Mars ... Using computer simulations, the team found that dusty Mars ice can melt from within, with overlying ice protecting this shallow subsurface liquid ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Mars Express has sent back new images of the south polar region ... a mixture comprising ...

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, China's Zhurong rover has discovered traces of ...

An image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a gully in the Martian region Dao Vallis. The white areas in the centre of the image are believed to be areas of dusty ice similar to that ...

In the context of Mars, a habitable zone for photosynthesizing microbes could exist beneath a certain amount of ice. Too shallow and the strong ultraviolet radiation will cook them, but too deep ...

Credit: Hassan Basagic / iStock / Getty Images Plus Scientists have discovered ... the team demonstrated that a habitable zone could exist on Mars in ice with such dust. Their paper, published ...

Mars scientists are divided about whether ice can actually melt when exposed to the Martian surface. That's due to the planet's thin, dry atmosphere, where water ice is believed to sublimate ...