Crossing vast tracts of British Columbian wilderness, the Skeena is one of Canada’s most thrilling, and little-known, rail ...

Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...

Big screen stand-in for Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, New Zealand is a dream destination that lives up to the hype. Jaw-dropping landscapes—soaring mountains, sandy beaches ...

These fascinating birds have evolved over millions of years to survive on the coldest, windiest, driest continent on Earth ... BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate ...

Flowers have a way of doing that. They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about 130 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively ...

This is Banff National Park, one of the most beautiful—and famous—places on Earth. “It’s a real authentic town and not one that attracts busloads of tourists,” says Andy Brown ...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collects data at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO ... In the animation above, Earth is at the center and bluer points indicate more distant ...

Acacia Johnson is a photographer from Alaska, focused on human relationships to the Earth’s polar regions. She has made over 55 expeditions to the these regions as a photographer and expedition ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

Attenborough's and Butfield's “Ocean” is the complementary book to a National Geographic film of the same name available on ...

Originally predicted to go nova in 2024, buzz about binary star system T Coronae Borealis was rekindled by NASA in early May ...