National Geographic Day, celebrated annually, honors the spirit of exploration, discovery, and understanding the world around ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.

National Geographic was founded in 1888 by a group of visionaries who embodied an era of exploration, discovery, invention, and change. With offices around the world and headquarters in Washington ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic ... the space fleet would reach Alpha Centauri in 20 years after launch. “It’s not science fiction,” Manchester says.

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

Wednesday’s crash has resurfaced concerns about the airport’s proximity to the river, narrow landing space and overcrowding.

A Noida-based Class 9 student has earned the remarkable distinction of naming an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will appoint the Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) to support scientific progress in Earth system ...

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees ...

CPH:FORUM, the financing and co-production arm of documentary festival CPH:DOX, has unveiled its lineup of projects.

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