Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

A new camera at the South Pole Telescope has used the Cosmic Microwave Background, the first light to fill the universe, as a celestial treasure map that could lead to the secrets of dark matter.

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 ...

The climate is so treacherous at the South Pole that it's only safe to fly in or out, between November and February, when it’s warmer and there’s greater visibility. By the end of their stay in ...

But at the South Pole, ... The ice at these depths is dark and extremely transparent. Each cable string has 60 sensors at depth; 86 strings make up the main IceCube detector.

Yale University physicists are part of two international research efforts at the South Pole — the IceCube Collaboration and DM-Ice — that have announced new observations on cosmic neutrinos and the ...

We measured at this at the South Pole and were able to send radio waves through about 4 miles’ worth of ice. So that’s pretty transparent, ...

The world's largest neutrino telescope — made from a giant cube of ice at the South Pole — aimed at detecting subatomic particles traveling near the speed of light has been completed ...