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

On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, ...

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

Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed that a suspected underground lake on Mars is likely composed of rock and dust, not water.

Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S. When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were ...

On June 1, 2024, China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft achieved a historic landing in the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin—a region long ...

Although the sun is more consistently visible at the lunar poles, it stays low, never rising more than 7° above the horizon in the target landing areas. This creates a harsh lighting environment ...