Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising ...

Snow dots the Martian landscape in these images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The Antarctic summer runs from late November through March ... rises 700 nautical miles from the South Pole. Mt. Vinson and five other nearby mountains collectively comprise Vinson Massif.

Humans are returning to the moon—this time, to stay. Because our presence will be more permanent, NASA has selected a ...

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American president has set foot, according to the Chilean government. Boric led the ...

Located over 8,500 miles away from us here in Hampton Roads, Antarctica covers the Earth's South Pole and is the fifth ... Antarctica also only has two seasons: summer and winter, experiencing ...

When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. During the UK summer, Antarctica lies in total darkness. During the UK winter, the sun rises above the horizon in Antarctica. The continent has 24 hours of ...

In the summer it is light for 24 hours of the day ... In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. It was one of the most famous expeditions in history.