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 ...

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

China is set to launch the Chang’e 7 mission in 2026, aiming to search for water ice at the Moon’s south pole. The mission ...

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

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

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

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

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...

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 ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia ... making preparations for a dash across the Pole in the summer of 1915/16.

Many of the most famous expeditions, such as Shackleton’s fateful voyage on ... about their attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. The detail in this story is incredible, providing ...

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 ...