On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below ...

After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.

On January 18, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men reached the geographic South Pole, only to discover they were not the first people to make it there. When they arrived, they ...

But the South Pole is a hotspot for astronomers for different, weirder reasons—because there, you can see different, weirder particles from space: neutrons and neutrinos.

A scientific research station is located at the South Pole, which is more than 1,200 kilometers inland.

British stroke survivor Jonny Huntington has become the first disabled person to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole. The para-athlete from Devon completed the 566-mile Antarctic journey in ...

The real achievement, pilot Conrad Shinn said later, was not landing at the South Pole but successfully taking off again.

Europe's Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter missions captured a variety of cryptic surface features poking through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring hit the region.

Intuitive Machines, which aced the first-ever private moon landing earlier this year, just scored a $117 million NASA contract for a 2027 mission to the lunar south pole.

In 1956, Commander Shinn, a veteran naval aviator who planned and executed the flight, touched down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below ...

Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102 His Navy plane spent only 49 minutes on the ground and needed a boost from small rockets to break free from the ice and take off.