When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

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A space probe has delivered world-first images of the Sun's south pole—and this is only the start towards deeper solar science.

The real achievement, pilot Conrad Shinn said later, was not landing at the South Pole but successfully taking off again.

Shinn makes first landing in South Pole Longtime Pensacola resident and retired Naval officer, Conrad "Gus" Shinn, made the first plane landing at the geographic South Pole on October 31, 1956.

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface.

Late on Monday night, in the bright sunlit tundra of the South Pole, another record is broken as 21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesø stepped past the line of national flags and stood next to the ...

A 21-year-old Norwegian woman has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis, solo and without assistance, her team told AFP on Tuesday.

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.