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

In a recovery-bound economy, it’s probably hard to sell vacations that cost up to $12,000 per person. But for a few Prior Lake families, the experience of exploring an unusual destination ...

Shackleton’s main plan was to be the first team to cross the Antarctic Continent – to start on one side, cross the South Pole and continue to the other side. He gathered a top crew to join the ...

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 ...

The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition ... Sir Ernest Shackleton, the renowned polar explorer, died on 5 January 1922 in Grytviken, South Georgia.

A spate of new books, films, television and radio programmes, and media articles, and planned Antarctic expeditions ... from Elephant Island to South Georgia. Shackleton and his two fittest ...

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 ...

San Francisco-based mountaineer Satish Gogineni became the first Indian to ski solo and unsupported from Hercules Inlet to ...

The collaboration is aimed at contributing to scientific research on the Moon, particularly in the study of its south pole, according to a report by Pakistan Observer. According to NASA ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

The team from India's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) has created the first geological map of Chandrayaan-3 landing site, which sits close to the Moon's south pole. Listen to Story The geological ...