A new radar technique allowed the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to scan deep into the Martian surface and determine an ...

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured this view of Mars’ south polar ice cap Feb. 25, 2015. Three years ...

The presence of a 12-mile long lake under the south pole of Mars was probably just a technology glitch, scientists have said, dampening hopes that life may exist there. In 2018, the European Space ...

Do the ice caps on the southern pole of Mars bury a secret reservoir of liquid water? A signal detected by Mars Advanced ...

Mars' watery past is becoming clearer, with evidence of ancient rivers and long-lasting surface water. While a supposed south ...

For the first time, scientists have found a large, watery lake beneath an ice cap on Mars. Because water is essential to life, the discovery offers an exciting new place to search for life-forms ...

In 2018, the discovery of a suspected subsurface lake on Mars excited scientists as at least on Earth, where there is water, ...

While the latest findings clarify that the feature is not an underground lake, they highlight the utility of the radar ...

Two years ago, scientists detected what looked like a salty lake under the surface of Mars' southern ice cap. Now, new research has found more evidence of the lake, and also revealed a number of ...

Is Mars home to an underwater lake? Different researchers are reaching different conclusions. Some say remote sensing from the Mars Express orbiter shows liquid water in an underground lake at Mars’ ...

Doubt has been cast on the possibility of a lake of liquid water buried beneath Mars' southern ice cap by new computer simulations, which suggest that closely compacted layers of ice could produce the ...