Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

Shackleton was generally seen as a secondary figure to Scott, whose South Pole effort had more completely captured the public ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Shackleton's team carried out scientific experiments and got within 97 miles of the South Pole before deciding to return. In Endurance, Shears stated that Shackleton knew that "if he carried out ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

In a November interview with adventure company Shackleton, Kylleso said that ... Do you think I can also go to the South Pole?'" recalled Ebbesen. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store ...

Late on Monday night, in the bright sunlit tundra of the South Pole, another record is broken ... parts," Kyllesø confided in adventure company Shackleton in a pre-expedition interview.

Shackleton and his expedition had the goal of reaching the South Pole from the East Antarctic continent, a largely unexplored area. They waited several months for the austral spring but by then ...

On this day (January 14, 1993), four women arrived on skis at the South Pole. It was the prized ending ... with notable explorers like Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott, and, before ...

China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of water at the ...

In a November interview with adventure company Shackleton, Kylleso said that ... Do you think I can also go to the South Pole?'" recalled Ebbesen. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store ...