This story first appeared in the August 1963 issue of National Geographic magazine. Up on the mountains the midday sun glared fiercely, but down in the valley near the swift-running stream it was ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

For the occasion, we’ve created the first ever “flip” issue of National Geographic—essentially two magazines in one—to revisit environmental milestones of the past half century and to ...

This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Sensitive moments and vibrant portraits fill the Instagram feed of Brooklyn-based photographer Ruddy Roye, whose work focusing on black life in America and his homeland of Jamaica goes out to an ...

A version of this story appears in the October 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine. Editor's note: This story first published on June 16, 2023. It has been updated.

This story appears in the May 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. ... These are the first images from Earth’s giant new telescope. SCIENCE.

A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our ...

People use old National Geographic magazines for everything from collages to DIY wallpapering to bookshelf stuffers. Writer Tara Conklin scooped up a stack of the mags at a Goodwill store for ...

Revisiting a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. National Geographic writer, photographer, and explorer Loren McIntyre perches at ...