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

The first permanent structure ever constructed at the South Pole was blown up recently, 53 years after the United States built the station at the bottom of Antarctica. The original Amundsen-Scott ...

Ashley Shelby's debut novel — set among an appealing mix of nerds and oddballs at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott research station — is a refreshing diversion from summer's heat.

AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica -- AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica -- The snow squealed and crunched as the U.S. Air Force skiplane slid to a stop at the bottom of the ...

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

Staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station are about as far from civilization as you can be. But they have lots of activities to keep them busy.

In 1911, famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s team of trekkers became the first humans to reach the South Pole. They stayed for less than a week. But today, one of the most isolated spots ...

Jeff Capps (left), who runs the vehicle maintenance shop at a research station at the South Pole. An otherworldly snowy landscape at the South Pole captured by Capps in mid-September 2023.

Two planes are on their way to Antarctica to evacuate the worker. — -- When you get sick at the South Pole, you can't just ring up your local doctor and swing by his office for a check-up ...

He immediately applied for the $80,000-a-year mechanic position at the US government-owned Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station when he learned of it in 2019 and hasn’t looked back since.

Only a select few ever make it to the South Pole. Still fewer get to blow things up there. And only one man has the distinction of blowing up a piece of real estate at the South Pole that he once ...