In 1910, he sailed on the Terra Nova, determined to reach the South Pole this time. He achieved his goal in 1912, but Roald Amundsen beat him to it. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get ...

2026: China's Chang'e 7 mission will send an orbiter, lander, rover and a small flying device to the south pole to hunt for ice. China's Yutu-2 rover, which landed on the far side of the moon in ...

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 ...

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 27, 2025 Athena’s main payload is NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, which stands for Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1. It will burrow into the lunar south pole ...

The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.

After 20-days on the ice of Antarctica, Kristin Harila has suspended her trek from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole due to injury. advertisement. Adventure On SI.

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.

As a clear demonstration of "the ability of man to advance" past 500 kilometers (311 miles) in Antarctica, the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is located at the ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the key to future lunar exploration, as the country pushes forward with its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.

Lt. Cmdr. Conrad Shinn, a Navy pilot who became the first person to land a plane at the South Pole, on Oct. 31, 1956, helping to open the frigid expanse of Antarctica to scientific research and ...