This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...

“This was basically a dinosaur trying to build a fish tail,” says National Geographic Emerging Explorer ... a paleontologist at Italy’s Natural History Museum of Milan.

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island ... from Belcher’s cairns at Port Refuge National Historic Site, archaeologists have ...

Here's what you need to know about how the holiday is celebrated—and the history of the traditional blowing of the shofar horn. Jewish people welcome the new year in September or October ...

These historical figures had serious opinions on how to start the morning right. Even history's most accomplished figures—such as Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius—had a hard time getting out of bed.

His efforts then and throughout his career as a diver, explorer, and scientist opened the door for Black divers to explore the ocean—and their own history—in ways that hadn’t been done before.

Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United ... It was the first women’s rights march organized by the National Organization for Women since the defeat of the Equal ...

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

Located near Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park, the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library (SNMAL) has preserved LGBTQ+ history for over five decades. Mark N. Silber founded SNMAL ...

The December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next. Local ...

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Photograph by Universal History Archive, Getty Images 1814 ... and the aircraft crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks later determined that the ...