A scientist examines an axolotl x-ray at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City. What’s more, understanding axolotl genetics could ...

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

The hidden wonders of long-vanished cities that once housed kings and hummed with everyday life are being rediscovered thanks to modern-day archaeology. Tel Megiddo in Israel holds the outlines of ...

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild,” says Tierney Thys, a marine biologist with the California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years. Edward John Poynter's painting Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862 ...

We could always see our cosmic partner’s mottled, cratered face by eye. Later, telescopes sharpened our views of its bumps, ridges, and relict lava seas. Finally, in the mid-20th century ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You’ve got to think big.” (see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society.) In the 19 years since, the group has raised $160 million in private donations, much of it from high-tech ...

Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic Image Collection But do any of these inflammation-hacking techniques help accelerate healing? Evidence is both promising and murky, with some ...

It took director Mateo Willis three weeks to capture this scene, which is featured in the new National Geographic Channel show Hostile Planet. The chicks hatch in late June and early July ...