Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has been searching the world to find the world’s largest fish. In mid-June, a team he leads in Cambodia got a call from a fisherman named Moul ...

(See National Geographic’s first map of Pluto.) Then, in 2005, Mike Brown, a professor of astronomy at Caltech, crashed the party upon discovering Eris, similar in size to Pluto and also in the ...

While investigating the origin of the rings, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Laurent Ballesta and his team found a riot of colorful sea life, including yellow coral that is seldom ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

Mention Hastings and people still refer to the battle of 1066, which is a shame given the town has changed so much — since the 11th century, certainly, but over the past decade, too. Like many ...

Greeks don’t hike. You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals themselves. They can’t see the point, apparently; uses up too much beach time. If that’s the ...

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 ...

The Spanish crown eventually ceded it to the state, and it became a national monument in 1870 ... aware of its geographic isolation on the peninsula and the inevitability of its fall.

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...

When it comes to cardiovascular exercise, running is in a class of its own. It's a sport that has endured millennia—the oldest and once only Olympic event was a sprint known as the stadion ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

Diagnoses have climbed by 175 percent in just the last decade—with the greatest increases in girls and women. Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being ...