While the UK enjoys its longest day of sunlight on Saturday, British scientists at the South Pole experience 24 hours of ...

It's Midwinter Day in Antarctica, the darkest day of the year -- a perfect time to look at the history of isolation madness ...

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

Ever wondered why planes often fly over the North Pole but almost never cross the South Pole? It all comes down to logistics, ...

It's Midwinter Day in Antarctica, the darkest day of the year -- a perfect time to look at the history of isolation madness ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. British explorer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole on January 17, 1912.