National Geographic's 100 best images of the year—curated from 107 photographers, 119 stories, and more than two million photographs.

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...

Felyssa Ricco stands outside the house in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her mother and stepfather, Kelly and Jesse Portanova.

This page was updated on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, to add clarification of National Geographic's mapping policy. (See maps of India and Pakistan’s conflict over mountains and glaciers) ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

For nearly a century, so-called “ugly laws” banned people with visible disabilities and diseases from public spaces, revealing society’s harsh standards of beauty and the impact on those who ...

Most scholars say that at the nation's founding ending a pregnancy wasn’t illegal—or even controversial. Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United States.

By reading the rings of more than 1,500 trees across the western U.S., some of which were growing as early as 800, and stitching together the story they told, the team previously created a map of ...

D.C.’s unique status may come down to a secret meeting between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

In 1977, NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls. Is their time in space running out?

Everything we’ve learned about sleep has emphasized its importance to our mental and physical health. Our sleep-wake pattern is a central feature of human biology—an adaptation to life on a ...