AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from ...

While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe. As a boy, Magellan studied mapmaking and navigation.

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87. That ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first arrived here about 500 years ago, cruising through Tierra del Fuego's remote straits on a quest for Asian spices. And in the 1800s, Charles Darwin ...

visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who observed it five centuries ago. New research is ...

The series begins with a song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to ...

A monument was first erected back in 1926 in the village of Humåtak to honor the explorer ... today celebrated Magellan Day, the 409th anniversary of its discovery by Ferdinand Magellan on ...

visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who observed it five centuries ago. New research is ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...