The National Geographic Society’s CEO reflects on its long history of global exploration and invites a future inspiring the ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

For most families, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime splurge trip — one best appreciated by kids over seven, who can manage the ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

This January, Will Smith takes audiences on the ultimate journey of discovery in the new National Geographic original series ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...