A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica. For two and a half years, an Argo ...

Explorer's cabin had been used as a shed in Norway for most of a century — but now it's been brought back to his Irish birthplace and meticulously restored Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance in ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance voyage is one of the most famous in all of human exploration. Shackleton and his men did not succeed in their quest to cross Antarctica from one side to another in ...

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today. The Shackleton Experience uses artefacts and interactive elements to try and recreate the ...

It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

A researcher believes he's cracked the mystery behind the sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance. Part of one of the most famous Antarctic expeditions in history, Endurance set ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant structural weaknesses that caused its demise -- and an ...

EXPERTS have discovered the real reasons Ernest Shackleton’s ship sank on its ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1915. And it suggests the famed polar explorer may have known the Endurance ship wasn’t ...

It's one of the world's most famous shipwrecks, marooned nearly 10,000 feet deep beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Endurance, owned by legendary Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest ...

Issues with the ship's hull, deck beams, and more show the ship was no match for Antarctic sea ice. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 6, 2025 6:00 AM EDT Image: Photo by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research ...

It has been 110 years since Endurance, often described as the strongest wooden ship ever built, sank after becoming trapped in sea ice near Antarctica. But a reassessment of the evidence reveals that ...