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French engineers are set to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below.

New images of Mars suggest the Red Planet had lakes on its surface as recently as three billion years ago.

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins.

An international team of experts have mapped a huge, incredibly old location, mentioned in the notes of a Russian explorer from half a century ago, buried under hundreds of meters of ice.

Networks of giant polygonal troughs found in crater basins on Mars are cracks caused by evaporating lakes.These landforms had been attributed to thermal contractions in the Martian permafrost, similar to what the Phoenix lander explored near the north pole on the Red Planet.