A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

Are researchers searching in the wrong locations on Mars to find ancient life? This is what a recent study published in ...

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface.

A study led by NASA and Penn State researchers has shown that organic molecules could endure for tens of millions of years ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

Mars has experienced multiple ice ages, with each one leaving less ice than the last. By studying craters that serve as “ice ...

According to new research, the answer is far more unusual — and has nothing to do with life. Instead, the gullies appear to ...

For years, scientists believed carbon dioxide ice might play a role in shaping Mars’ surface. However, no one had ever ...

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds. For decades, ...