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.

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.

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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Mexican artist José María Jara painted the scene in 1889. National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the ...

“I wonder what might have happened,” Smith told National Geographic, “if I had been standing on a cliff at that exact moment when I got the response.” In the US alone, over half of the ...

a frequent National Geographic photographer, has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year, awarded today by London’s Natural History Museum, which organizes the competition annually ...

I’m Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History magazine, and this is Overheard at National Geographic—a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have here at Nat ...

About 627 acres earmarked for development were instead added to the protected Murujuga National Park by the government of Western Australia. The government also announced a new policy ...