I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first. The race was on.

On January 18, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men reached the geographic South Pole, only to discover they ...

The Moon's south pole, according to Nasa, is full of "mystery, science and intrigue". No wonder then that there's a so-called space race to reach the south pole of the Moon, far away from the ...

In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, and Ernest Shackleton set out with dog teams and sledges aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. They pushed south to 82º16.5'S, when scurvy ...

In the early 19th century, European explorers started to visit the southern polar continent of Antarctica. It’s been suggested that Polynesian cultures may have visited Antarctica hundreds of ...

As countries race to build on the discovery of water near the Moon's South Pole, there could be a lot more than just water stored in these bitterly cold, shadowy, lunar craters. A study in Nature ...

NASA plans to land astronauts at the south pole in 2026 as part of its third ... And it's the reason the Space Race is being re-run.