According to Adrien Broquet and a team of DLR planetary scientists, the northern polar cap on Mars is quite young ... period that ended about 11,700 years ago. Those sheets "weighed down" the ...

Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX who has controversially waded into U.S. politics, has said it’s possible to send a crewed mission to Mars by 2029. He said it’s necessary to preserve ...

Curiosity travels 200 metres a day. With many stops, the rover has travelled only 15 kilometres in the last four years. Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts.

There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground ... disappear within a few hundred million years. Aside from water, another main clue ...

A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a ...