The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” might not be fiction for much longer, if memory researcher Steve Ramirez gets his way.

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

Food fights, freezing water, and barrels of fake blood: locals reminisce about the time Hollywood invaded their small community.

There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as "AJ," who ...

Most famous for its canal, Panama’s namesake capital has been busily reinventing itself. Explore the storied spaces of its old quarter, pockets of urban greenery and vibrant restaurant scene.

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

North America’s Native nations reassert their sovereignty: ‘We are here’ Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws, and how they live.

For more than a century, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's 144-foot long ship "Endurance" was lost off the coast of Antarctica beneath the icy Weddell Sea.

In this video, we explore the breaking news that Dragon Man is, in fact, a Denisovan. Recent ancient DNA and protein research ...

US phone maker Apple has asked the South Korean government to allow it to transfer high-precision map data outside the ...