Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

Take a walk back in time on a visit to Fife, home to towering cathedrals, ancient abbeys and the world’s oldest golf course.

Nat Geo’s in-house photo engineering team named the Fujifilm X-T50 the best compact camera for travel for its top-notch film ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Welcome to Nat Geo Your Shot: National Geographic’s global community for ... Want to take better travel photos? Think like an artist. Want to take better travel photos? Think like an artist.

Photos of tourists with captive wild animals ... In December 2017, after a National Geographic investigative report on harmful wildlife tourism in Amazonian Brazil and Peru, Instagram introduced ...

Sala, 56, is not simply a marine adventurer; his mission, through the National Geographic project conservation organisation ...

Water Babies lessons teach essential water safety skills, beginning with the ‘laryngeal reflex’—a natural response that ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... telescope is one of only a few able to directly capture images of giant exoplanets. Photograph by Gerhard Hüdepohl ...

Grand Prismatic Spring ascended from a beautiful backwater spot to the second most popular destination in Yellowstone ...