The Arecibo Observatory’s suspended equipment platform fell hundreds of feet and crashed through the giant radio dish.

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With its Roman mosaics, grand stately homes and baroque city gates, this small Maltese city preserves traces of its ancient history.

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Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

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The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...