But the reason NOVA-C is landing where it is, about 300 kilometers from the south pole, has more to do with how the whole world is now thinking about the moon.

Roughly seven hours after departure, we landed on ice.  The remnants of a 1970 Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation crash were noticeable nearby.

The New Zealand air force completed a high-risk medical evacuation of three Americans from Antarctica in freezing temperatures and total darkness on ice runway.

The South Pole Food Growth Chamber at full bloom. The hydroponic greenhouse was built during the winter of 2004, and it went into full operation the next year. It’s a model for how colonies on ...

Photo Courtesy: Church Group Web site An aerial view of the QUaD telescope in the reflective ground shield at South Pole. The shield prevents interference from the ground. The experiment […] ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small.

Stephen Padin, the South Pole station science leader, will be featured on the network's broadcast "Planet Earth 2007: Seven Ways to Help Save the World." Padin is spending the southern winter at ...

On Tuesday, the Twin Otter propeller plane flew through the darkness to the South Pole, landing on a runway – a 2,000–foot strip of ice – lit up by the glow of burning debris in barrels.

People on the project live and work in this building. In the winter the South Pole Station houses 40-50 people, but in the summer there are about 2-300 people in the camp. During the summer season ...

Reaching the two-mile high elevation of the South Pole is only an incidental goal. Amundsen was there in December 1911; Scott in January 1912. Shackleton almost got there in January 1909.