What a contrast with modern-day explorers, who need only point the car north from the Portland area in the morning and find themselves in one of North America’s most spectacular cities by ...

Johann Heinrich Zimmermann (1741-1805) was one of three German sailors aboard Captain James Cook’s ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, when Cook made his discovery of Hawaii on Jan. 18, 1778 ...

HMS Endeavour, famously captained by James Cook during his Pacific voyage, identified off the coast of Rhode Island, solving 250-year maritime mystery - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The remains of captain Cook ’s ship, HMS Endeavour, has been located off the US coast after sinking 250 years ago. Between ...

HMS ‘Erebus’ and HMS ‘Terror’ were used in Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated attempt to discover the North-west Passage in 1845 (Getty) ...

Discovery Rupes (left), named for the ship HMS Discovery, shown here in a MDIS high-incidence angle image mosaic, was first imaged by Mariner 10 in the mid-1970’s.

The new spaceship in 'Star Trek: Discovery' may be named a NASA space shuttle, just as the space shuttle Enterprise was named for the famed 'Star Trek' ship.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas –– Researchers at Texas A&M University are now examining an anchor recovered from Admiralty Inlet last month to see if it is, as believed by those who recovered it, the anchor ...

HMS Bergbau AG's ( ETR:HMU ) dividend will be increasing from last year's payment of the same period to €1.05 on ...

It took 10 years for members of the Discovery Modelers Education Center to finish this 13-foot-long model of Captain Vancouver’s HMS Discovery. The handcrafted replica, complete with figurines ...

In 1792, Captain Vancouver was in charge of the HMS Discovery, Captain Broughten was in charge of the Chatham, two ships that, despite being sailing ships, were actually quite small measuring at ...

In 2014, officials discovered the HMS Erebus, one of two ships that sank in the Arctic while on a mission to travel across the Northwest Passage. The location of the second ship, HMS Terror, was ...