In new footage from National Geographic’s cameras on board the NASA mission, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen talk about naming ...

The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...

Once endorsed by a sultan, Turkish delight has been a sweet treat for centuries; now it’s taking on new forms in Istanbul, ...

In fact, this newly discovered species, which scientists are calling the ballista spider, hunts green tree ants exclusively ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

From bats to birds, recent research suggests that fireworks may disrupt routine and sometimes lead to serious injury or death ...

From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some ...

In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

Is that one there?” Kaggie Orrick, a National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist, asks from the passenger’s seat ...

All eyes are on Nathan’s Famous for the annual hot dog eating contest—but there’s a stand that’s even older, and it's nowhere ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

At the new Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, curators want to bring visitors astonishingly close to the most fascinating ...