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 ...

A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...

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 ...

In April, ESA's Mars Orbiter captured images of surface features around the planet's south pole that researchers said were "surprisingly dark compared with their icy surroundings." The scientists ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover ...

Intuitive Machine's lander toppled over inside a crater on the Moon's south pole after making its landing attempt this week.

For its second attempt, the company sent the hexagonal Athena lander to the Mons Mouton plateau, closer to the lunar south ...

Athena is targeting highland terrain about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole, where it will deploy three ...

Most of that science is aimed at discovering hidden water on the moon's south pole. According to NASA, these experiments will play a key role in the return of astronauts to the moon, and eventually ...

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 ...