From the Canaries to the Scottish Borders, Europe is dotted with remote landscapes where exceptionally dark skies make ...

Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph all 25,000 animal species in the world’s zoos and ...

The tiny country contributes less than 0.1 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions—but is experiencing the consequences of climate change firsthand.

A new study found that dementia-related deaths were highest in suburban areas—not in crowded cities or the remote countryside ...

A new book on history's lost riches tells the tale of a cache of imperial gold, silver, and gems that was smuggled out of Peru on the eve of revolution before disappearing forever.

Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.

In 1897, nearly 200,000 dusty documents were retrieved from a forgotten genizah in Cairo. But why were these manuscripts left ...

Planets without stars to orbit raise important questions about how planets evolve and what habitability might look like ...

Crossing the lakes and woodlands to the border with Norway, the fäbodleden—or fäbod trail—blends nature, great food, and ...

Just beyond the shoreline of the southern United States, the annual migration of the resurgent striped fish has become a ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has been more than two decades in the making, a feat of patience that invites comparison with ...