A new climate model suggests that ancient lakes on Mars may have survived for decades beneath thin layers of ice that formed ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

Thin, seasonal ice may have protected ancient lakes on Mars, allowing liquid water to last for decades despite cold ...

How did Mars maintain surface liquid water billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes ...

New MarsDaily research explains how thin seasonal ice could have allowed ancient Martian lakes to remain liquid for decades, despite a cold early Mars climate ...

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

Was Mars a friendly planet for water, even life, in its ancient past? Huge channel networks run across its surface. Rocks show signs of water immersion. Yet pictures sent back from NASA's Curiosity ...