Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

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

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

For a man who has spent his entire life moving inexorably forward, Mark Pollock finds himself pausing, just a little, and ...

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.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

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 ...

Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, in collaboration with NASA, has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's south pole from 40 million miles ...

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.

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...

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