Things are heating up in the icy south, and not just because of climate change. We check in with this season's polar ...

A British adventurer left paralyzed in a horrific climbing accident will try to break a world record by skiing to the South ...

On June 1, 2024, China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft achieved a historic landing in the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin—a region long ...

Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...

Mo Brooks is a retired congressman from north Alabama and a long-standing conservative voice in state and national politics. He now writes an opinion column for AL.com. CODELs (short for ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by a mysterious signal coming from the icy south pole of Mars. In 2018, a radar instrument called MARSIS, aboard a European Mars orbiter, detected a very ...

Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S. When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (α-Fe2O3) and ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of ...