The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...

The axolotl's talent for regeneration gets scientists thinking; dino-era ticks bite; chillin' in a Mars Ice Home; and a mushroom blooms. ByLori Cuthbert and Natasha Daly 4 min read These stories ...

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the search for alien life on the Red Planet. One of the most exciting planetary discoveries ever ...

Gravity will be a challenge — scientists are worried that Mars lacks the "pull" to keep whatever atmosphere is created. Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice (which is ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Mars is home to many amazing topographical sites ... s encroaching and receding (and sometimes disappearing) polar ice caps.