Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea ...

I’ve endured numerous rounds of radiation and taken thousands of pills—but CAR-T is the most effective therapy I’ve completed ...

Three bottles of a rare, 19th-century Scotch found at Ernest Shackleton’s abandoned expedition base were returned to Antarctica after a distiller flew them to Scotland to recreate the recipe.

A SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR from Co Louth will tomorrow head off on an expedition to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of one ...

An entire private island off Scotland’s rugged west coast — complete with a ruined castle, a working farm and a cluster of ...

Nearly six years later, as he prepared for another expedition to Antarctica, Shackleton would die of a heart attack on South Georgia. He was buried there on March 5, 1922.

During the 1819 expedition, the men’s Dene guide Akaitcho killed a bear, and while he didn’t eat it, he gave the flesh to the Europeans who, Franklin wrote, “had no such prejudice.” ...

Theodore Roosevelt’s two eldest sons shared their father’s passion for the outdoors and traveled to Asia in search of the giant panda.

In Ancient Egypt, 1,500 years before Christ, cats were not only companions but afforded almost godly status. In a more ...

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many of its officers were the first to fall.