HX Expeditions has been leading adventure travel trips since 1896 and has more than 20 years of experience operating in ...

A Scottish island with a derelict castle has been put up for sale for the first time in eight decades. Shuna, a 1,100-acre ...

Nearly six years later, as he prepared for another expedition to Antarctica, Shackleton would die of a heart attack on South Georgia. He was buried there on March 5, 1922.

Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.British explorer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole on January 17, 1912.

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

Ever wondered why planes often fly over the North Pole but almost never cross the South Pole? It all comes down to logistics, safety, and practicality. The North Pole is surrounded by land and has ...

Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency, is revealing the first-ever views of the sun’s south pole. These never-before-seen images offer scientists a chance to ...

Interestingly, it saw that the Sun’s magnetic field has its north and south all tangled up, with patches of both magnetic polarities present right up to the Sun’s south pole. This only happens once ...

From that position, it could look directly at the Sun’s south pole. Over the next several years, the spacecraft will gradually increase its orbital tilt, offering even clearer views. “Today we reveal ...

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...

I’ve wanted to travel to Antarctica since before I was a professional travel journalist. Fascinated by the tales of Shackleton, Byrd and Scott, I wanted that sense of discovery of a wild, untamed ...