The Museum of Exploration could be a celebration of a great tradition — if it steers clear of the wokeness that has overtaken ...

This image was published on the June/July 2018 Traveler magazine cover as part of Your Shot's " Trip That Changed My Life" assignment. Photograph by Takashi, National Geographic Your Shot ...

Two scenarios emerge. On the magazine cover, there’s a verdant Earth. Welcome to the optimistic view of writer Emma Marris, who sees a world that is changed—we cannot undo some damage we have ...

The print issue was one of the most successful issues of the year from a sales point of view, the magazine tells us. So far, National Geographic has received pledges from readers to remove about 200 ...

He dreamed of seeing his photographs in the same magazine—and even on the cover. So when National Geographic asked him to photograph an iconic monument he knows well, he was ready to work.

COVID-19 is a reminder of their destructive power, but they’re crucial to humans’ development and survival. Although feared as agents of disease, viruses also work wonders, shaping evolution ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. A half century ago astronomers designed a map that would point to Earth from anywhere in the galaxy.

About 3.5 billion years ago, two of the planets that orbited the sun may have had biospheres of similar bulk. One, Earth, evolved in a way that allowed life to flourish and splinter into endless ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

Numbats and thylacines shared an ancestor some 40 million to 35 million years ago, and the two species share up to 95 percent of their DNA.The numbat’s genome could therefore serve as a template ...

“When there is no water, nothing green, the sand becomes very strong, a very fast enemy,” says Sbai. “It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction.

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. One of the most challenging aspects of storytelling at National Geographic is introducing our readers to people and ...