A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...

While whistles, bells and yells made farewell din in the narrow harbor of Dunedin, New Zealand, last week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd’s South ... Pole is approximately 1,900 miles (air ...

If all went well, they would reach the South Pole in ... would pop open the barrels and refuel the plane from inside the cabin, allowing it another 60 minutes in the air. The extra weight had ...