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 ...

China and Russia announced in March 2025 separate but coordinated plans to strengthen and expand their presence in Antarctica. That same month, the United States announced cuts to funding to operate ...

The museum's “Think & Drink” event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, will feature William Lindman, water production and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities for the next decade, moving forward with two experiments based at the South Pole. About once every ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.