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.

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

Could ancient microbes still be hiding on Mars—preserved for millions of years in ice? A new NASA and Penn State study ...

Massive volcanic eruptions billions of years ago may have made it snow on Mars, leaving thick buried ice near the planet’s ...

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

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 ...

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, ...