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 ...

Embraced by the world’s best memory athletes, the “method of loci” can also help the rest of us strengthen our recall, heal ...

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 ...

So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

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

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year—curated from 107 photographers, 119 stories, and more than two million photographs.

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route.

New research proves these bloodsuckers can pick you out in a crowd. Here are the odors they’re drawn to, what scientists ...