The Mars Ice Home is a concept study for a potential astronaut habitat on Mars. Take a look at this photo tour to see what it might be like to live on the Red Planet.

Water ice exists on the planet Mercury, hidden in permanently shadowed craters at the small planet's north pole, ... and the background image is the mosaic of MESSENGER images from Image 2.2.

But Bramson and her colleagues were taken aback to find ice at the planet's mid-latitudes, analogous to earthly latitudes falling between the Canadian-U.S. border and Kansas, is something new.

New data from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter suggests a massive deposit called the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) holds enough water ice to cover the entire planet in an ocean ...

Periodically, global temperatures drop, ice sheets form at the poles, then the ice creeps down to cover the continents. We call these ice ages. There have been five major ice ages in Earth’s ...