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

The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries like the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre. The Trump ...

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In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

In the Highlands and Islands, trace the steps of historic funeral processions through epic landscapes on some of Scotland’s ...

A series of planets will align in the early morning skies before sunrise through July 4, including Jupiter, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, the dwarf planet Pluto and the moon. The rare parade of ...

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has ... seal pup falling through thin ice to show how deadly our warming planet has become for some species, my goal is to help people understand ...

Even though the flood happened millions of years ago, Micallef says, it holds important clues about the future of our planet ... The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to ...

Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...