100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

From the United States’ Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, astronomers use sophisticated telescopes to peer into the depths of space and create images of the universe in its infancy. Scientists use of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each January 1, scientists and staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station gather outside on the ice. This is not to celebrate ...

HARDSHIP and bitter disappointment are etched into the five weather-beaten faces that stare at the camera in a photograph ...

A team of civilian aviators and medical personnel will attempt to evacuate and replace an ailing physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, employing small propeller-driven aircraft to perform an ...

On September 20, after six months of darkness, the return of the sun at the South Pole signaled the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. For scientists at NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric ...

Since 2010, the IceCube Observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station has been delivering groundbreaking measurements ...

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 ...