Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic ...

AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica -- A plane bringing an ailing doctor back for medical treatment arrived at the British Antarctic research station at Rothera Wednesday night.

This resulted in the station's evacuation. The 2000 death of an astrophysicist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was a ...

On Oct 25, 1991, I made my first trip to the US’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. I vividly remember landing on the ice runway onboard a ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules transport. Upon exiting ...

Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary ...

On October 18, 1911 Amundsen's entourage set out from the Bay of Whales, on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for their final drive toward the pole. His British counterpart, Robert Scott, dependent on ...