After more than 1,000 years, researchers believe they've finally decoded the mystery of the world's longest runestone, a ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A little north and west of Greenland's stormy southern tip, on a steep hillside above an iceberg-clotted fjord first ...

The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas.

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on ...