Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Like many of his contemporaries, Magellan set out to discover a Western sea route to the Spice ...

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth's "twin." The NASA Magellan spacecraft ...

One of the greatest adventures undertaken by humanity was, without doubt, the voyage conceived by Ferdinand Magellan, which accidentally ended up being the first circumnavigation of the planet, ...