By warming the planet, the polar ice caps and permafrost would ... represent a cost-effective means of raising atmospheric temperatures on Mars. However, several questions remain about how ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

Specifically, researchers have identified for the first time an organism capable of maintaining metabolic activity in a ...

There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground. Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice in ...

It's a normal pattern that's stronger in the winter and usually tends to keep the coldest weather bottled up in the Arctic. Previously this winter: Icy air has descended on the US. Is the polar ...

The left-hand panel shows the surface topography of Mars’s south pole, with the outline of the south polar cap in black. The light blue line shows the area used in the modelling experiments ...

One place the orbiting spacecraft trained its lens on was the Mars Polar Lander site, both before and after the landing in an attempt to learn what happened to the robot ship, which disappeared ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic ... the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.