This is a voyage of discovery everyone can make. THE NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION is a yearlong series of articles celebrating National Geographic at 125.

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dust speck had been plucked from the tail of a comet more than 200 million miles away. Now, under an electron ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Last October 22, at 9:29 a.m., a bell rang in the main office of Yuri Oganessian’s lab in Dubna, north of Moscow.

Just so we know whom to thank. THE NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION is a yearlong series of articles celebrating National Geographic at 125.

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The village chief, a wispy fellow with an easy smile and snowy muttonchops, came aboard James Cameron’s expedition ship ...

The photographs made during the Hayden expedition to Yellowstone were an essential reason it was selected as America’s first national park in 1872. Photographer William Henry Jackson captured ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... women and children around the world spend a collective 125 million hours gathering water, according to Water.org.

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. At National Geographic, we’ve helped you explore the world for 130 years. With the launch of the May print ...