Deep in the dark recesses of a limestone cave in Alabama soar life-sized figures that span earthly and spiritual realms. Traced into the mud of the cave ceiling by torchlight more than a thousand ...

This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The problem began with one word: “America.” That word, honoring Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, was coined in ...

How a unique New York event brought San Diego’s optimistic culture to life through art, cuisine, and community.

Say the words “National Geographic,” and the first thing that comes to mind is photography. We are known, and have been for most of the past 130 years, for taking people on visual journeys ...

The widow of an Afghan man, whose lawyer says was tortured and killed by the Taliban after his identity was revealed in a National Geographic documentary, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit ...

Photograph By History and Art Collection / Alamy The ... and even sports team logos. (Australia hands control of its newest national parks to Indigenous people.) “They’re pretty iconic ...

Almost 42 years to the day after Ride left the planet aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, the documentary Sally, directed by Emmy winner Cristina Costantini, will premiere on National Geographic.

“It was the perfect storm of need and meaning coming together,” says Steven Heller, a design historian and former New York Times art director who has chronicled the logo’s cultural legac ...

LOS ANGELES -- In celebration of Earth Month, National Geographic is giving viewers a never-before-seen look at the world of penguins! "If you follow a penguin just for a day, you will realize ...

The inaugural 'National Geographic 33' list includes the likes of Don Cheadle, Selena Gomez, Sterlin Harjo, Michelle Yeoh and Jason Momoa. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor When the National Geographic ...

By Rania Aniftos National Geographic announced on Tuesday (March 18) the launch of its National Geographic 33, a list honoring 33 individuals whose “imaginative ideas and unstoppable drive are ...

To reach rock art painted in some of the most inaccessible places means rappelling down cliffs, bushwhacking through thick rainforest, and battling unrelenting bees. National Geographic Explorer ...