Explore 25 epic expeditions and the explorers that made them, from ancient voyages to polar treks. Discover the daring ...

Throughout history, explorers have pushed the boundaries of the known world, chasing maps into the blank spaces and daring to go where no one else had. Whether they were crossing oceans, scaling ...

Feted by royalty and friends with other intellectual luminaries of his day, George Forster was one history's greatest explorers. An early advocate of racial and gender equality, retracing his journeys ...

More than 530 years after Christopher Columbus led an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, many Americans still see the navigator as a symbol of their country’s origins. Others see ...

On June 26, the National Geographic Society will open the Museum of Exploration (MOE), the most significant expansion of its campus in history. A “treasure trove” of archives — maps, artifacts and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...