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Antarctic Roundup 2025-26: South Pole Speed Attempt Begins This Weekend

Things are heating up in the icy south, and not just because of climate change. We check in with this season's polar ...
Yahoo

Private lunar lander may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...
CNN

Chile’s President Boric leads journey to South Pole in historic trip

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American president has set foot, according to the Chilean government. Boric led the ...
The New York Times

A Frigid First: Chile’s President Visits South Pole to Bolster Antarctic Claims

Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising competition for influence in Antarctica. By Eve Sampson Chile’s president visited ...
Scientific American

Cutbacks to U.S. Antarctic Science Risk Geopolitical Shifts at the South Pole

Antarctica may be remote, but it hasn’t escaped the scans of Google Street View. If you digitally drop into McMurdo Station, the U.S.’s busiest Antarctic installation, and slide along the volcanic ...
Mashable

Private spacecraft circling moon snaps photo with strange optical illusion

Tokyo company ispace released a fresh photo of the moon's south pole taken by its lunar lander Resilience. Credit: ispace A Japanese commercial spacecraft has sent home another close-up image of the ...