Galloway is a bit of Scotland that’s often overlooked by visitors. Across the border from England, this southwestern region ...

A crisp portion of fish and chips remains the ultimate coastal comfort food — and Cornwall is home to some of the UK’s best, ...

From a clifftop walking trail to a subterranean Roman villa, via a martini worthy of a film star — here’s how to make the ...

With some planning, tourists can cover the City of Lights like Parisians, on two wheels. Here’s a four-step guide on how to do it. Travelers can explore Paris’s famed attractions from the seat ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that ...

The English language is replete with idioms about beavers, like “beaver away” or “busy as a beaver,” all signifying hard work and industry. In his new book, Eager, Ben Goldfarb takes us ...

If you’ve noticed more people biking in town over the last year or two, it’s not just in your head. Biking has exploded during the pandemic, with millions of Americans mounting bicycles for ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

Mars has captivated humans since we first set eyes on it as a star-like object in the night sky. Early on, its reddish hue set the planet apart from its shimmering siblings, each compelling in its ...

As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming. The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile ...