Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Tourists swim in a cenote, or flooded cave, outside Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The Yucatan Peninsula is dotted with thousands of these interconnected limestone caves, which are fed by a ...

Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, these the winners photos from this year's Wildlife ...

And while Disney has been one of the more instrumental companies to introduce and romanticize the buccaneer life in pop ...

The Critics Choice Association has announced the nominees for the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, honoring the ...

It’s dangerous. It’s toxic. And it may provide hope for millions in agony. Pain management is among the most commonly reportedly reasons for medical cannabis use, but side effects have stymied many ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

Off the coast of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, beneath rolling blue waves and coral gardens, rests something that shouldn’t really ...

I’ve never seen anything like this,' Bob Ballard, a National Geographic explorer, said about the recent discovery.

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...