From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

Imagine spotting a fawn far off or, better yet, a robin’s nest high up in a tree because you have a close-up view in the palm ...

From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

Here’s how and why they do it. A detail of the moon photographed using a Celestron telescope. A young girl peers through a telescope at Scope X, the biggest amateur telescope-making and science ...

As a National Geographic Explorer in Residence, her goal is to reimagine and reframe the origin story of Africans in the Americas and to tell stories that humanize and bring empathy, nuance and ...

Find your inner National Geographic Explorer in these photos. Lucia Sicos Mamani, a Quechua alpaquera (alpaca-herder, hand-spinner and traditional weaver) hand spinning wool at the top of the ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations With a Gorilla," our October 1978 cover story written by Francine Patterson, the psychologist who taught Koko how to sign.

Top longevity scientist Eric Topol, author of the new book Super Agers, tells National Geographic which biohacks for a longer life are backed by science—and which you can skip. Skip the ...

“It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish,” says David Attenborough in the new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough, which premieres on National Geographic on ...

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said: “Our competition goes from strength to strength, with this year’s easily one of the strongest yet. World-class photography ...

A version of this story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Although freshwater environments, from creeks to rivers, brim with more than 10,000 species of fish ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility's 605-megapixel field camera, fitted to a 48-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory, California, surveys the entire visible sky each night. Recently it discovered the ...