While the northern lights often steal the spotlight, their southern counterpart—aurora australis—offers an equally dazzling ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Precise Readings From a South Pole Telescope Can Change Everything Humans Know About Cosmos Better insights on the mysterious ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

Astrophotographer Hunter Davis captured this view of the Milky Way and southern lights at the South Pole. ... "I've been working and living at the South Pole station since Oct. 30th 2016, ...

Top pic: The sun goes down at the South Pole: The last light of autumn (March 20, 2018) illuminates an array of flags from the 12 nations that were the original signatories on the 1959 Antarctic ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

A new study on the South Pole sheds new light on the most remote region on Earth – a place that scientists previously thought was isolated from rising global temperatures.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The South Pole Wall, as it's been dubbed, has been hiding in plain sight, remaining undetected until now because large parts of it sit half a billion light-years away behind the bright Milky Way ...