Seismic data like the lines pictured on this 3D map help scientists understand the structure of the earth's core. This ...

Protecting and restoring Earth’s rainforests is crucial to our planet’s survival. That’s why National Geographic Society ... regions systematically. The science indicates that each ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about 130 million ... Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Johnson has unearthed many fossils ...

A small Arctic research station in Norway has emerged as a scientific hub, and it’s home to an increasingly female-led ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history ... Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark The earliest multicelled animals that survived the Precambrian fall ...

This edition of Bonza highlights themes like Animals, Travel, Planet Earth, Humanity and Science. Based on the popular National Geographic Channel TV show by the same name, Doomsday Preppers ...

These ancient stars are incredibly dense. A teaspoonful of their matter would weigh as much on Earth as an elephant—5.5 tons. White dwarfs typically have a radius just .01 times that of our own ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It had taken a century of accumulating science, and a big shift in perceptions, for that to happen.

The potential military applications of light are straight out of science fiction ... sail to catch the "wind" of light beamed from an Earth-based laser. In theory such a craft could accelerate ...

The Emirates launched the KhalifaSat Earth Observation imaging satellite ... a facility which will continue to be transformed as the UAE National Space Programme expands in the coming decades.