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

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

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

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

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

Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...

A British man is looking to emulate the achievements of some of the 20th Century's greatest explorers by travelling unaided from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole.

Fuel use at the South Pole in the summertime exceeds 20,000 gallons per week and requires an expensive ... musical concerts and a visit from Sir David Attenborough and his documentary film ...

A documentary about the first all-Taiwanese expedition to the South Pole is to be shown at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival next month, organizers said on Wednesday. The documentary, Nature of ...

Today, the U.S. operates three major research stations on the continent—McMurdo Station, Palmer Station and the South Pole Station—making it one of the most active nations in Antarctic research.

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 ...