On April 11, 1952, a Pan Am Flight 526A, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 52 of the 69 people on board. After decades of effort, explorers have found the wreck of the plane at the bottom of ...

The Discovery expedition (1901–4) played a key role in the history of polar exploration. It was led by the Royal Navy commander Robert Falcon Scott, a pioneering polar explorer who died in 1912 after ...

Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in 100 years. Ice observations recorded in the ...

The story of America's discovery is more than just Christopher Columbus. Vikings reached America earlier. Amerigo Vespucci gave the continent its name. Native civilizations thrived before Europeans ...

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has brought together explorers, scientists, innovators, and storytellers — a combination that naturally can segue into original, firsthand content. From ...

Antarctica is the most inhospitable continent on earth. It’s dry, cold, and completely dark for months of the year. Edwardian explorers were some of the first to brave the Antarctic winter, developing ...