A closer view of the same topographic model shown in [THE MAP FIGURE]. This is a synthetic view based on real-world data called a colored hillshade, i.e., elevation data that has been color-coded ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

This handout photo dated 31 October 2002 shows an aerial view of the new elevated station (bottom-C) being built at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

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 ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...