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 ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the search for alien life on the Red Planet. One of the most exciting planetary discoveries ever ...

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

How do you celebrate? With a knockout new image showing off Mars’ massive volcanoes, rugged valleys and ethereal clouds. There’s even a special guest star: a moon. The European Space Agency ...

(Credit: Hai Liu, Guangzhou University, China) According to the study authors, beaches indicate that Mars once had a large, ice-free ocean ... which contains the largest volcanoes in the solar system, ...

According to the paper's Chinese and American authors, beaches imply a large, ice-free ocean on Mars, even though Mars ... the solar system's largest volcanoes, altered the planet's rotation ...