Exploration and Explorers

Historic data shed light on demise of mountaineers attempting to be the first to the storied summit.

Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday celebration.

Cousteau's Calypso is being restored for new enviromental mission.

New museum exhibit details race to be the first man at South Pole.

An ocean vehicle called Nereus has just made the deepest ocean dive to date

Humans have gone to the moon, but robots have gone just about everywhere else in space.

Human migration is much more complex than we might think, genetic evidence suggests.

Paleontologists claim to have unearthed a new type of pterosaur and a previously unknown sauropod.

Field scientists do science amid political strife and disintegrating habitats.

He was a latecomer to the Age of Exploration, but James Cook still managed to put his mark on world history.