There, he worked under the famous and somewhat controversial explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. His first flights at the bottom of the world were part of Operation Highjump, in 1946-47. His job was to ...

The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.

Was the movie Alien vs Predator correct? Is there really an ancient pyramid in Antarctica? If true, this would suggest it is millions of years older than Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which is considered ...

How Roald Amundsen Became The First Man To Reach The South Pole In the summer of 1910, Roald Amundsen set out on what he said was an expedition to the North Pole with his ship Fram. He kept his ...

At the end of his tour, he was picked up by an icebreaker and joined the command ship of Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, who had made history in 1929 as the first person to fly over the South Pole ...

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...