On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

Two European Mars orbiters spied a variety of cryptic surface features poking up through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring ... seasonal polar caps composed mainly of carbon ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express mission captured images of the Australe Scopuli region near the south pole of ... polar caps composed mainly of carbon dioxide ice with some water ...

The fifth-largest continent, the magical Antarctica, which dominates the South Pole in all its mysterious ... fell on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record ...

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lying roughly midway between Norway’s northern coast and the North Pole, is the site ...

ESA's Mars Express has captured an astonishing array of landforms emerging from a thick winter blanket of frost as spring arrives in the south ... caps of Mars are mainly composed of carbon ...

New research suggests that ancient Mars, despite its icy conditions, once had rivers, lakes, and even a vast ...

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified with news that for the first time the North Pole stands at the ... The ice caps are estimated to be shrinking at the ...

You might catch a glimpse of whales and emperor penguins, in addition to ice-capped peaks and frozen waves ... If you find yourself in the right season, you can fly to the South Pole from Cape Town or ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.

Meet the world's most intrepid twins who fly, cycle, climb, row and walk the planet's most extreme locations. Ross and Hugo, ...