After nearly half a century of traveling through space, NASA’s Voyager mission has made another astonishing discovery — one ...

Beyond Machu Picchu, these destinations reveal a side of the country that most visitors miss—from volcanic cities and canyon villages to sacred lakes and jungle getaways. As an alternative to visiting ...

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...

Small, battery-powered planes are on the way. But building large, zero-emission airliners is a daunting challenge.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

From the oracles of ancient Rome to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, humans have long turned to the dream world to decode the mysteries of the mind. Lu Chin's mid-16th century painting entitled "Zhuangzi ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the entire world was eagerly anticipating—the opening of King Tut's burial chamber.

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Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

What cutting-edge technology has revealed in the 800-year-old search for the Mongol ruler's lost tomb. The "Yuan Emperor Album" includes a portrait of Genghis Khan, an iconic figure in Mongolian ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...