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.

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 ...

An expedition led by the motor yacht MY Legend has completed the first visual survey of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, offering new insight into one of the most emblematic ships of polar ...

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 ...

First-Ever Images of Sun’s South Pole Released by European Mission Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

How Roald Amundsen Became The First Man To Reach The South Pole In the summer of 1910, Roald Amundsen set out on what he said was an expedition to the North Pole with his ship Fram. He kept his ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history.

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 ...

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