The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...

Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for ...

he worked on an idea to help fill in the fossil record of life on Earth by looking at Mars. That's because it's only possible to look back at microbial life on Earth so far. Plate tectonics and ...

Unlike the volcanoes of Earth, Olympus Mons keeps growing because there are no plate tectonics on Mars. This means the lava does not get displaced but accumulates in one place. The base of Olympus ...