To the naked eye, the Asian longhorned tick isn’t much different than other ticks found in the United States: It too has eight legs, a round body, and mouthparts that latch onto its chosen host ...

In Ontario’s vineyard Country, orchards, micro-farms and roadside stalls offer a local bounty that talented home cooks ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

In Ontario’s vineyard Country, orchards, micro-farms and roadside stalls offer a local bounty that talented home cooks ...

Where People Meet Place Discover the fascinating world of population geography! From the densest cities to the emptiest ...

The Flying Ministers: The Salvation Army’s “Flying Padres” cross the Australian outback by air, dropping in on ranches and ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. A half century ago astronomers designed a map that would point to Earth from anywhere in the galaxy.

Stalks of iron-rich minerals, each a fraction the size of an eyelash, may be evidence of the earliest life-forms to inhabit the newborn planet Earth. The tiny hematite tubes are as much as 4.28 ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

By reading the rings of more than 1,500 trees across the western U.S., some of which were growing as early as 800, and stitching together the story they told, the team previously created a map of ...