David Keller, a New Ulm native and graduate of New Ulm High School, works as a heavy equipment operator at McMurdo Station in ...

To obtain b-roll, contact Dena Headlee at [email protected]. The United States has dedicated a new scientific station at the geographic South Pole–the third since 1957–officially ushering in a new ...

Major construction projects to improve the electrical generating capacity and communications links at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station were completed this month, ...

Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory have concluded that renewable energy could partially replace diesel fuel to power instruments and provide heat at the South Pole. They have proposed a ...

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

A twin-engine rescue plane took off from the South Pole yesterday afternoon carrying a seriously ill American doctor toward civilization on the second leg of a dangerous mission of mercy. About 10 ...

This image shows the arrangement of solar panel arrays sketched out in the study. The panels are aligned to catch sunlight along the horizon at virtually any time of day during austral summer. A ...

Don t grab that metal! It has been almost two months since the South Pole station throttled down for the winter. The sun finally disappeared below the horizon, and it is almost completely dark. The ...

In this photo provided by the Courtesy British Antarctic Survey, Rothera, the British Antarctic Survey station is seen from the air. A daring South Pole medical rescue is underway. An airplane left a ...

When Marysville native Gary Brougham spent 15 months at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the early 1970s, he brought more than just memories of the deep cold. He brought back a flag. For a ...

An otherworldly view of a snowy landscape in Antarctica has been captured at the South Pole. Lending a lunar feel, the video shows the camera moving across a seemingly endless, vast bed of cloud-like ...