This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror. The find follows the 2014 ...

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this enduring exploration mystery, it raises more questions than it ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...

The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew ...

Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...

DNA science is finally putting names to the lost crew of the 1845 Franklin expedition. A recent study identified four more ...

A new study by University of Glasgow researchers may give further insight to the deaths of all 129 crew of the ill-fated "Franklin Expedition" of 1845 which was lost in the Canadian Arctic as it ...

Scientists have revealed the identities of four men who perished in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition. The Franklin Expedition was an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

Around 180 years ago, a British expedition to the Arctic met a grisly end. Only recently have scientific investigations been able to identify the long-dead seamen. Now, thanks to DNA donations from ...

At one point in the opening episode of the new AMC show The Terror, Captain Francis Crozier looks out over the slushy Arctic water that surrounds his wooden ship. The year is 1846, and Crozier and his ...