A robotic submarine is set to embark on a long journey to circumnavigate the globe. Called Redwing, the underwater robotic glider is being launched from Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The project ...

PlanetSolar II completed the first-ever solar-powered circumnavigation of Lake Titicaca while conducting a scientific survey ...

Fort Worth-based Galaxy Unmanned Systems LLC (GUS) aims to chase the historical first circumnavigation of the world by airship completed one hundred years ago. We are rapidly approaching the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A major event could bring dozens of airships to Tennessee in 2025. The World Sky Race is the brainchild of Don Hartsell commissioner of the World Air League, which he formed ...

In September 2023—the fourth day of the month, to be exact—local Lexie Alford began her journey to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in an electric vehicle. It’s an impressive feat ...

The first flight around the world took off and landed in Seattle. In 1924 a group of American flyers made a bold decision to be the first to fly around the Earth, a flight that would begin and end in ...

Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite facing mutinies, starvation, and storms, his fleet discovered a passage through ...

He did not charter special flights or wildly expensive airline tickets to break the world record for fastest flying time around the planet. Jules Vern may have gone Around the World in Eighty Days, ...

In March 2013, Bradt set off on perhaps his most audacious project yet: a five-year circumnavigation of the globe by sailboat. His plan is to sail between the world’s best kayaking destinations. "The ...

Luxury expedition cruise line Seabourn is launching its first-ever “Grand Africa Voyage,” a 90-day circumnavigation of the African continent with 44 ports across 26 different countries departing ...

Donald Lawson wants to speed around the world’s oceans this year in a blistering time, setting a record in the process. But first, he’ll have to be patient. Lawson, a 41-year-old Baltimore native, was ...