From the waters of an Arctic archipelago all the way to the Southern Ocean and marine waters in between, these photos show ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

A new documentary from National Geographic Pristine Seas and Oceans North spotlights how Inuit and Cree communities are ...

On assignment in northern Thailand, National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi follows Miss Wisa, a farmer leading her ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The federal government shutdown has sent 97 percent of NASA's employees home and canceled other space agency activities.

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

The Cofán people in Ecuador watch over the forest to defend it from invaders. After studying in the U.S., Hugo Lucitante returned home to help.