Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river features.

Extreme winds stir up planet-wide dust storms. Like Earth, Mars also has icy glaciers at its polar regions that never melt. But when summer rolls around, the planet’s temperate zone warms up enough to ...

But the problems presented by Mars' atmosphere for ice to melt into water don't exist below a glacier or tightly packed snow. The team plans to map out the most likely spots on Mars where shallow ...

Scientists think the same process could be happening on Mars. Dust holes found in 2012 on Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier. Similar pockets could form on Mars, scientists think. Kimberly Casey CC-BY ...

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Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon dioxide snow on Mars – and discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique.

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lying roughly midway between Norway’s northern coast and the North Pole, is the site ...

When Mars spins nearly straight up and down ... That's why on Earth you see rivers come out from underneath glaciers instead of just draining into the ground." This meltwater forms rivers at ...