What are stars made of? A century ago, this woman found out—and changed physics forever
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
Purpose-driven inventors: Bringing the sea floor to the surface
Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.
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Hubble Space Telescope
Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...
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Black Holes, explained
Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...
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KhalifaSat: the first Emirati satellite built from ground up
The MBRSC constructed the clean room to develop and build the satellite, a facility which will continue to be transformed as the UAE National ... to advance space science and advanced technology ...
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This Is What a Martian Looks Like—According to Carl Sagan
This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National ... Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...
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Explore The Ocean’s Depths With National Geographic’s ‘Oceanxplorers’
Space exploration often takes center stage ... Oceanxplorers, a new documentary series from National Geographic, invites us to dive into the deep and discover the secrets of the oceans like ...
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Here’s why women may be the best suited for spaceflight
This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you’re packing for an interplanetary space mission—one that’s very long and might involve populating a faraway ...