On Oct. 12, 1957, history was made when the first-ever commercial flight to Antarctica departed from San Francisco, carrying 37 passengers to the U.S. Naval facility at McMurdo Sound station. Thirty ...

Only a few years ago, Antarctica seemed as remote and forbidding as the moon. Since 1957, however, lights have burned year round across the silent white desert that surrounds the South Pole. As new ...

Flying through brutal weather in the permanent night of an Antarctic winter, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) successfully rescued three personnel from America's McMurdo Station in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Col. Christopher Lantagne, Director of Staff for the Oregon Air National Guard, recently concluded a six-week tour as commander of the 13th Air Expeditionary Group at McMurdo ...

New Zealand air force pilots accomplished one of their most perilous missions this week, executing a dramatic evacuation from Antarctica’s frozen wilderness that pushed human endurance and aircraft ...

Three researchers at the U.S. McMurdo Station in Antarctica have been evacuated in a "challenging," nearly 20-hour medical emergency rescue mission this week conducted by the Royal New Zealand Air ...

An Australian medical team is attempting the risky trip to McMurdo Station. Aug. 8, 2012 — -- An Australian medical team is attempting to make its way to Antarctica to help rescue an expedition ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometers of sea ice around the ...