Michele Stevens, daughter of Carola June Young, proposed naming the peak “Mount Carola” to honor her mother, and the proposal ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

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 ...

Govardhan Lal Mali quit farming in 2013 to build ice cream trucks in Gangapur, India. He charges an average of 150,000 rupees ...

Did you know that the world looks different depending on where you are? Maps, as commonly seen in textbooks and online, are ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official ...

Twenty-four-hour neighbourhood festivals, a nine-mile-long street party and a whole year of revelry — Amsterdam is pulling ...

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

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

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries ...