Opening in summer 2026, the National Geographic Museum of Exploration will start the next chapter of its history.

J.R. Harris has hiked some of the world’s most remote wildernesses - unsupported and mostly alone - including Patagonia, the Australian outback, and most recently, Tanzania. "A few weeks ago, I ...

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 ...

If the image we have in our heads of what an ‘explorer’ looks like is male, that’s partly because history has focused too heavily on the achievements of men. But there have been plenty of pioneering ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (KWQC) - The ‘Moments in History’ of Burlington, Iowa, celebrate the community and what has brought it to what is there today. First called Flint Hills, by the indigenous Sac and Fox ...

Victor Glover will become the first Black astronaut to orbit the Moon – but he is part of a long line of Black explorers, ...

From Amelia Earhart to Percy Fawcett’s expedition to the Lost City of Z, the fate of these five explorers remains mysterious. Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in an airplane circa 1936. The pilot ...