Humanity's next destination could very well be Mars. But, unlike Earth, Mars is a harsh and unforgiving environment. Recently released images show the frigid conditions of Mars' poles. Follow Tech ...

The European Space Agency just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of ...

In fact, it's carbon dioxide ice, and at Mars' south pole, there's 26-foot-thick (8-meter-thick) layer of it year-round. (These image was actually taken near the summer solstice, not the winter ...

and their presence near Mars' south pole is a big clue about how events played out on the Red Planet. Usually, Buhler spends his time modeling the carbon-dioxide cycle on Mars today. During ...

The left-hand panel shows the surface topography of Mars’s south pole, with the outline of the south polar cap in black. The light blue line shows the area used in the modelling experiments ...

At first glance, Mars appears very different from Earth ... It's a plane near the South Pole, covered in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Satellite data suggest there is a permanent lake, 20 kilometres across, hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they would not have stuck around for long, leaving little ...

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular ... of reactors which can be used on the Moon or Mars. As for why so many Moon missions target the lunar ...

The results, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, provide the first independent line of evidence, using data other than radar, that there is liquid water beneath Mars' south pole.