A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Nova Scotia’s cultural landscape is as diverse as its coastline, shaped by Mi'kmaq, French Acadian and African Nova Scotian communities. These coastal destinations, set along wave-worn cliffs and in ...

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This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘There’s nothing like it in any other ocean,’ says marine ... by landmasses but by five major currents that swirl ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... working back and forth across a three-by-five-mile target area of the ocean floor. These ribbons of data have ...

On April 14, just before midnight, the 882-foot ship struck an iceberg, sparking a chain of events that would lead to one of ...

There are five oceans recognized in the ... was to give official recognition to a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean. You remember the National Geographic Survey, don't you? They're the ones who ...

The weekly newspaper that ran from 1950 to 1970 declared itself the only paper ‘100% interested in San Diego’s Peninsula area ...