This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. A half century ago astronomers designed a map that would point to Earth from anywhere in the galaxy.

As the UK’s ‘Race Across the World’ TV series becomes increasingly popular, orienteering could see a surge in global interest.

The data will be used to train supercomputers that will one day map reefs around the globe. The National Geographic Society has funded the work of Ved Chirayath since 2021. Learn more about its ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

National Geographic magazine, the venerable journal of science, history and the natural world, laid off six of its top editors last week in an extraordinary reorganization of its editorial ranks ...

National Geographic, the iconic yellow framed magazine that has chronicled the natural world for more than 100 years, laid off its last remaining staff writers this week, multiple departing ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a good thing there’s a rumble strip running along the shoulder, because Tim Samaras can’t keep his eyes on ...

In 1883, Eliza Scidmore hopped on a mail steamer to Alaska. Tired of society life in Washington, D.C., she was inspired by the dramatic scenery described by naturalist John Muir in the San ...

Storytelling has repopulated the world with new generations of explorers many times over. Perhaps the photography and maps National Geographic magazine published moved you to go out and see the world.

National Geographic, the iconic yellow-framed magazine that has chronicled the natural world for more than 100 years, laid off its last remaining staff writers this week, multiple departing ...

NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...