Roberto Orosei and colleagues authored a paper on the discover of a massive body of liquid water underneath ice on Mars that ...

The existence of liquid water on Mars — one of the more hotly debated matters about our cold, red neighbor — is looking increasingly likely. New research published Monday in the journal Nature ...

Hints of buried water on Mars have swung between tantalizing and controversial, but one idea keeps resurfacing: lakes could persist if they sit beneath a protective lid of ice. Instead of needing a ...

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Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing. Using a climate model adapted for Martian conditions, a team of researchers ...

How did Mars maintain surface liquid water billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and Canada ...

About 3.5 billion years ago — around the time life is thought to have first arisen on Earth — Mars had a large freshwater lake that might well have been hospitable to life, scientists reported Monday.

A manganese ring shows Mars' Utopia Planitia once held a stable ocean for around one million years, long enough for life to ...