Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

But you do get an attractively packaged and presented item — important in a gift — as well as the credibility that comes with the National Geographic name. During a neighborhood science ...

The board discussed new science textbooks, a tentative facilities budget and the debate on cell phone use in schools at its ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last ...

Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington ... He has been a regular contributor to National Geographic since 1998, writing on such topics as dinosaurs, particle physics ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit recently posted a video from the ISS, capturing vivid auroras as seen from space. This phenomenon occurs when solar winds interact with the Earth's atmosphere, ...

Auroras are beautiful lights seen near the North and South Poles. If you are near the North Pole, the lights are called ...

Check the website to see what's on display before you go. Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains a trove of celebrated aircraft ...

Lala survived illegal wildlife trafficking in the Bolivian Amazon and now lives in a sanctuary with other rescued big cats.

Dogs are often hired to perform seemingly impossible tasks because their noses are so powerful. At airports, they smell ...