Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

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Karuna Prasad Mitra, a 71-year-old climber from Naihati, embarks on a challenging South Pole expedition after reaching the ...

This omission of the “hundred” prior to “teens” and “single digits” reminded me of how folks at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where I once worked, eschew the phrase “below zero ...

Kiwi climate researchers are part of an ambitious mission to recover critical geological records to help forecast future ...

We expect to see the American flag adorning homes and waving over schools, post offices, and government buildings. But there ...

Antarctica has been the subject of more than its fair share of speculation recently, after conspiracy theorist Eric Hecker ...

Led by British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott, Shackleton and Edward Wilson ... The race for the South Pole ended in 1911 with Amundsen’s conquest and in 1914 Shackleton made his third ...