Cobblestones and centuries collide on Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg. Visitors, historical interpreters, ...

These dark sky sanctuaries, reserves, parks, and trails invite you to immerse yourself in the wonders of our night skies.

Photographer and National Geographic contributor ... and processing each 50-megapixel photo into a larger 3D model. (The sheer amount of data “melted our first computer,” Alvarez says.) ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

It’s about the real America. We have Route 66—plus 2,000 years.” But it’s not America the Appia is competing with. Costa isn’t the first of ... dip has forced the national government ...

The City of Light welcomed nearly 30 million visitors in 2023, and even more admirers plan to travel there since the 2024 ...

In the basement of National Geographic’s headquarters, there’s a lab holding a secret tech weapon: Tom O’Brien. As Nat Geo’s photo engineer, O’Brien adapts new technologies to capture ...

Since the first Earth Day in 1970 ... Photograph by JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK 1987: Montreal protocol World leaders agree to phase out ozone-depleting substances just a few ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense Thursday, the National Guard Bureau’s senior ...

Photographer Mariceu Erthal took this self-portrait in July 2020 during her first visit to the ... days old,” Mollenkof wrote in a photo essay for National Geographic. “But I also thought ...