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

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Landing site: Near the Shackleton Crater, close to the south pole. Target landing date ... A spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface.

I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... aspects of the geography of the South Pole: This could be investigated further through looking at maps and atlases and exploring the topography ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Yet, since the great rush to reach the mythical South ... The Pole of Inaccessibility is at the continent’s furthest point from the coast. Lenin’s Bust (44° 41′ 39.79″ N, 10° 31′ 58.88″ E) is at the ...

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.

Regions around Leibnitz Beta, Amundsen crater, Cabeus crater and the Shackleton-de Gerlache Ridge at the lunar south pole are cited as preliminary landing sites for Chang’e-8. The mission lander ...

The robot, which should make its journey next year, is being sent to search for frozen water which could be important for ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...