A "hotspot" is melting the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet at the South Pole. The area affected is three times that of Greater London. Scientists suspect a combination of unusually radioactive ...

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole is the memoir of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the emergency-room–trained 47-year-old physician who, because she could not be ...

Particle physicists have been looking for so-called "sterile neutrinos" for a few decades now. They are a hypothesized ...

Witness the team gear up for the 2,000-mile journey to the Ross Ice Shelf and ride the very ... driest desert on Earth - all the way to the South Pole.

first-ever flight over the South Pole on November 29, 1928. After 14 months on the ice, Byrd and his men headed for home. Upon arrival, Byrd was once again given a hero's welcome. The Navy ...

Within the next few years, Canada's first lunar rover will launch to the Moon's south pole, where it will delve into perpetual darkness in search of water ice. However, before it leaves, this little ...

Ice Sculptors Complete a Pole-to-Pole ICE LAND as Holiday in the Gardens Opens this Weekend at Moody Gardens ...