Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

President Trump’s imposition last week of tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China – America’s three largest trading partners – is more than just the first salvo in a trade war, and more than ...

If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line ... rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. She suggested in response that North America be changed to, "América Mexicana ...

Croatia's first ever satellite has just beamed to Earth ... deploys from ISS to demonstrate cleaner spacecraft tech (photo) ...

The rhetorical shift from America First to America Everywhere is leaving even some of his allies slack-jawed — and wondering if he’s really serious. “The pursuit for peace should be that of ...

1 of 13 Archaeologists study a colossal Olmec stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo. The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into ...

Why are all those people gathered in the Cotwold's market town of Chipping Sodbuy? The BBC has now solved the mystery ...

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

Eleven years ago — almost to the day — a National Geographic Explorer ... the southern tip of South America. Salopek started ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he signed an executive order bringing back his "National Park of American Heroes." "I have signed an Executive Order to resume the process of creating a ...