The end of the historic Artemis II mission kicks off a race to establish a permanent human presence on the moon.

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning. In June 2024, early career geologist Gustavo Béjar López traveled to Guatemala ...

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

After traveling a record distance from Earth, the Artemis II crew saw incredible things. “This continues to be unreal,” pilot ...

Future missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

National Geographic Explorers participating in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions are conducting scientific research across Earth’s most crucial ecosystem. Through ...

The 1968 photo of our blue planet inspired the global environmental movement. Now, NASA hopes to recapture that magic on ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still be the human eye. It is easy to tell at a glance whether or not it's ...

Older, Faster, Stronger is a National Geographic exploration into the science of what it takes to live a longer and more active life. In evolutionary terms, humans are pretty new at getting old. Since ...