Whether you’re thinking about the future of Mars and how to send humans there, or trying to understand its past and see how the planet became the way it is today, one particular feature is crucially ...

Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution and in particular its changes of state from ice to vapor, as important markers indicating areas of increased energy, in which black holes and ...

In the recent conflicts in Iraq and Syria, water has often been used as a weapon. When ISIS seized the Fallujah Barrage, a dam on the Euphrates River, in 2014, they raised the floodgates to deprive ...

A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet’s watery past, and showing where we should land in the future. The map shows mineral deposits across the planet and has been ...

Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions. Reading time 3 minutes A new map of subsurface water on Mars just ...

We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather ...

A new “water map” of Mars could offer fresh clues about the planet’s past — and potential landing spots for the future. Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) spent a decade developing the ...

The first Mars ancient water map was developed. The European Space Agency created this new tech using data from the Mars Express Observatory. Scientists say that a huge sea of ice may lie under the ...