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 ...

The first picture would have to be of the Tuckers in Mobile, Alabama, right after Katrina. Mr. Tucker died two months after I took the picture. It made me think about my own mortality.

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.

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.

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Part of the first image Hubble made (above right) is about 50 percent sharper than an image of the same area of space taken with a ground-based telescope (above left). Photograph by NASA/ESA ...

Discovering the Source In the archives of National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., are thousands of files from the magazine’s 128-year history.

Galloway is a bit of Scotland that’s often overlooked by visitors. Across the border from England, this southwestern region ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...