Water ice can be turned to liquid water and leveraged to generate oxygen and hydrogen, which have myriad potential uses.

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...

Scientists used the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to study the glaciers.

Scientists have long been intrigued by the glaciers on Mars, once believed to be primarily composed of rocky rubble with just ...

On Earth, that trio — hydrogen, oxidants and shuffling iron — can sustain microbes living far below the surface and far from ...

The camera moves slowly over a surface that seems deserted and silent. There is no visible life, only dusty terrain ...

Mars was once rich with flowing water. Today, it's a cold, dusty desert marked by dried riverbeds and empty lake basins.

The Mars water debate continues. A team of scientists suggests vast oceans of water may not be locked within the Red Planet's crust, despite InSight lander data.

Although Mars is generally dry and cold (with temperatures as low as -225 degrees Fahrenheit, or -153 degrees Celsius) small amounts of water from potential ice, underground sources, or humidity ...

Liquid water was thought to once flow freely across Mars during the planet's Noachian and Hesperian periods — an era stretching from the planet's formation up to about 3 billion years ago.

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.

With the water theory now less likely, scientists have more freedom to explore these zones without that risk. Although this study does not eliminate the possibility of water elsewhere on Mars, it ...