The mountaineering star and at least three others perished in an avalanche in Pakistan's Karakoram. Other expeditions had ...

Famed for its excellent fossil-hunting beaches, this Georgian town on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast offers plenty of seaside distractions, from paleontology walks to seafood feasts with a view.

This month brings an exceptional lineup of celestial events, with rare alignments, brilliant meteors, and dramatic eclipses ...

Tourism is booming along the former trade routes of the ancient Uzbekistan. To understand its recent transformation, Gary ...

It’s only relatively recently,” she added, “that archaeology has turned its attention” to the daily lives of women and other ...

From its abolitionist history to its hip vintage shops and leafy trails, Oberlin is a jewel of a town within easy reach of ...

National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan follows the water, meeting the makers, guides, and creators whose craft is ...

A newly excavated megalithic container holding skeletal remains in Laos may help finally solve the mystery of the so-called ...

Unscathed by destructive Victorian-era excavations and modern tourism, Wogan Cavern may provide scientists with a glimpse ...

As climates change, our homes must too—and the future of comfort lies in balancing our needs with those of the world around ...

Human bones and artifacts from the largest whalers’ graveyard in the archipelago are at risk of disintegrating.

Between the pages of his grandfather's Quran, a National Geographic photographer discovered traces of a lost Iraq.