Rebecca McPhee

On January 5, Olivier Defranc, 55, landed in French Guiana after windsurfing across the Atlantic Ocean from Senegal in a record 26 days and 8 hours.

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury’s alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains.

Artist impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way. Image: ESA

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.

As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions. Anatarctica has 140 hidden volcanoes.

Archaeologists have found the smallest cat species ever to roam the Earth. Discovered in a cave in China, it would have fit in the palm of a hand.

Where did the first dinosaurs come from? A new paper suggests that their elusive remains may lie buried in some of the world’s least accessible regions: the Amazon rainforest, the Congo Basin, and the Sahara.

The RCMP post at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Photo: Jerry Kobalenko

New research has shown that the low oxygen levels that accompany high-altitude sports impact the quality of sperm and decrease male fertility.