Ferdinand Magellan, who murdered and enslaved indigenous people, was not an astronomer nor the clouds' discoverer. In September, astronomer Mia de los Reyes published an op-ed in the journal APS ...

Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519. One of his five ships and 18 of his original crew of about 250 eventually ...

At the center of the main square in Punta Arenas, Chile, is a towering bronze statue of Ferdinand Magellan ... Others are analyzing the magnetic signature of the rocks to determine their age.