A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work. Learn more about the Society’s support of ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

Maidment, a curator at the U.K.’s Natural History Museum, has come with me to tour Crystal Palace Park, which in 1854 included the world ... But National Geographic Explorer Nizar Ibrahim ...

The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the ...

Alabaster Caverns State Park near Freedom, Oklahoma offers a subterranean adventure that transforms ordinary Tuesday afternoons into extraordinary explorations of geological marvels.

National Geographic Society with the support of Rolex, launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a one-of-a-kind ...

After a recent video, someone from the National Geographic Society reached out to give me an updated set of their atlases. Today I open them up to see if there's anything new worth seeing.

Photograph by Mathias Svold, National Geographic It crosses a handful of mountain ranges, a national park, several communities, and one reservoir, where bobcats, foxes, and wild horses roam free.

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...