The humid air feels thick, carrying the laughter of a couple posing for photos in a verdigris gazebo ... a standing game of dominoes — a veritable national sport in Cuba — has mushroomed ...

Those photos of bears and wolves hanging out together as “friends” is only possible because they simply happen to be near so much food they don’t come to blows over it. National Geographic ...

For National Geographic, I normally take photos in a studio, where I have a multitude of flashes, softboxes, and light modifiers. Without easy access to my usual equipment—or interesting places ...

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Be sure you’re the first woman somewhere,” an editor advised budding photographer Dickey Chapelle as World War II ...

This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...

For his photograph of this extraordinary phenomenon, called “Creation,” Ballesta, a frequent National Geographic photographer, has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year ...

Wooden tables and bamboo chairs spill onto the street in front, where there are as many people taking photos as there ... the July/August 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).

Pioneering aerial photographer and cartographer Bradford Washburn shot some aerial photos in the 1950s for National Geographic for the original Everest map, Ozturk noted. “But he wasn’t able ...

About 627 acres earmarked for development were instead added to the protected Murujuga National Park by the government of Western Australia. The government also announced a new policy ...

National Geographic was granted special access to the years of work by architects, craftspeople, and scientists that has led to this moment. In the summer of 2021 I returned for the first time ...

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel impossible to resist. Cravings may feel impulsive, but new resea ...

Some people can't form mental images. Here's what scientists are learning about the condition known as aphantasia—and why it's less rare than you think. The "apple test"—asking participants to ...