160 years ago, the Franklin Expedition to chart the Northwest Passage vanished. NOVA is on board as a Canadian team makes a breakthrough discovery of one of Franklin's lost ships--a vital new clue ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified using DNA and genealogical analyses.

The expedition ended in disaster, with both ships becoming trapped in the ice in the Victoria Strait. Ultimately, Franklin and his men, a crew of 129 members, all perished.

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 ...

One of the ships from a failed expedition to the Arctic in the 1800s was recently discovered. NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks to Dan Simmons, who wrote a best-selling fictionalized account of the disaster.

DNA analysis sheds new light on the fate of the men in Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic voyage to explore the Northwest Passage, according to the latest research.

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.

He also encouraged any other known Franklin expedition descendants to reach out and see if their own DNA could help identify other remains at the ill-fated crewmembers’ final expedition stop—a ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive.

Author Ken McGoogan makes a strong case for his theory on the expedition, one that will be debated by notoriously fickle Franklin fanatics for years to come.

The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest ...