When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Peter Buhler/PSI A lone researcher may have figured out how Mars was able to support ...

Why it's so special: This week, researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) shared one of the most beautiful images of dunes on the surface of Mars ever taken. The team snapped the image using ...

Mars today is a cold, dry desert, but its surface tells a very different story. Ancient river channels, lake basins, and ...

This image, combining data from two instruments aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, depicts an orbital view of the north polar region of Mars. The ice-rich polar cap (the quasi-circular white area at ...

Tracing Water from Ice Caps to Subsurface Reservoirs Water on Mars is believed to originate from the vast polar ice caps, extending to potential hidden oceans beneath the surface. The journey of these ...

Changes in Mars’ axial tilt (obliquity) drive shifts between polar ice caps at low obliquity and widespread mid-latitude glaciation at high obliquity. These cycles result in ice accumulating inside ...

Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara Sea of Saharan 'star dunes' clashes with otherworldly terrain where 2 countries meet Soar through a ...