For hundreds of millions of years, a top-shaped rubble pile called Bennu has orbited the sun in relative isolation. The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate ...

a condition noted at the National Academies of Sciences gathering this week. In all, the United States contributed up to 2.24 million metric tons into the environment in 2016, and of that ...

Just off the historic Pony Express Road in western Utah lies a picture ... who is also a member of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, a group of scientists that advises BLM.

At El Diablo Restaurant in Timanfaya National Park, volcanoes take centre ... Includes car hire and B&B accommodation in Costa Teguise, but not flights.

The map shows a broad road inside Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate. In 2010 solid evidence of that road was finally unearthed, further reinforcing scholars’ view that the Madaba mosaic is not just a ...

(See National Geographic's favorite reindeer pictures.) “What we’ve found is a really great biological mechanism that’s totally unique and bizarre—and makes perfect sense,” says Glen ...

Decreasing precipitation and rising populations could bring a perfect storm of water shortages for the United States. Where is our water going? A thunderstorm sweeps across Nevada, a state in ...

With the help of the National Geographic Society ... A 96-year-old sabanero, or Costa Rican cowboy, on horseback in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Photograph by GIANLUCA COLLA, Nat Geo Image ...

It means the drone’s lidar was used to both determine the geographic location and map the surrounding area. “Normally you’d first have to locate yourself and then do the mapping,” he says.

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most ... is bisected by the A303—a major road that may soon be in a ...

“Dead zones” are deadly: Few or no organisms can survive in their oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, waters. Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become ...

(Trading Chinese silk for Persian horses helped create the Silk Road.) When the warrior statues were first produced, they were painted in rich, bright colors. The first emperor regarded himself as ...