In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary flew together to the North Pole. Forty years later, the sons of the great two explorers duplicated the feat, but by ship.

Sailing to remote places is no longer reserved for explorers of the past. Expedition cruises bring travelers face-to-face ...

Very few people have ever been to the North Pole, and for good reason. For centuries, reaching this extremely remote point on ...

Ponant Explorations has launched 12-night explorations to the Geographic North Pole in 2027 aboard Le Commandant Charcot, ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, ...

Forecasters say the region’s sea ice will dwindle to a strip above Greenland and Canada. There, polar bears and others will ...

The rapid movement of Earth’s magnetic north pole has puzzled scientists in recent years, as it has shifted from its usual ...

In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary adventured to the North Pole; 40 years later, their children re-created the expedition.

At 90 degrees North, where every direction is south and the frozen Arctic Ocean forms the ground beneath, the Indian tricolour was hoisted — not on a pole, but in the hands of a man running into ...

In 1931, legendary explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins set out to do what no one had ever dared – reach the North Pole underneath the ice in a submarine. The vessel, a heavily modified World War I relic ...