A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

Multiple eruptions from the Sun will create possible displays of Northern Lights in the U.S. this week, with ongoing impacts heading into the weekend.

Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has announced the full release of its 2027–28 deployment to all seven continents. | ...

The Mid-Shore community is invited to join legendary Chesapeake Bay writer Tom Horton as he moderates a panel exploring the ...

Excess nutrients, warmer temperatures, and an increasing population are causing explosions of algae worldwide.

Solar-powered calculators may have familiarized a new generation with green energy. On the other hand, maybe they were just cool.

Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

For a sense of how truly enormous the FIFA World Cup is, consider this statistic. The last Super Bowl was watched by 128 million people, while the last World Cup Final was watched by 1.5 billion ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...