More than six decades after Frank Drake wrote an equation to help find out if we are alone in the universe, scientists may soon have the answer.

There’s more than one way to find Amelia Earhart. An explorer could launch an expedition and comb every inch of the seafloor in the South Pacific, but the best place to look might be much closer than you think.

Yellowstone’s “supervolcano” is capable of causing mass destruction, but its incredible power could also help us fight climate change.

Historians fear that plans to build a tunnel near Stonehenge could harm valuable artifacts around the ancient site.

From Greek mythology to Jaws to Shark Week, sharks have always made for good stories. But is this perennial season of attention-grabbing coverage helping or hurting shark conservation?

Ten Black adventurers. More than 29,000 feet of altitude. One historic summit of Mount Everest.

A miserable expedition to the tip of South America makes for a heck of a story.

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat—and the law that ensures female athletes can experience both.

As massive wildfires continue to wreak havoc in the American West, Indigenous people are reviving centuries-old cultural burning practices to protect their communities.

The Appian Way is Italy’s original superhighway. Although current conditions may be rough, travel along the Queen of Roads has always been about more than just getting from here to there. In this episode, you’ll hear from the road itself.

As scientists help an industrial worker regain his sense of touch through a prosthetic arm, we learn about the mechanics of human touch and why it’s so essential to our lives.

Jessica Nabongo shares her unique journey: becoming the first documented Black woman to travel to every country in the world.

Is it possible to visualize a 1,200-year-old Peruvian queen or a medieval murder victim? Using forensic facial reconstruction, history “detective” Oscar Nilsson re-creates what the long dead looked like when they walked the Earth.

How do you turn a postindustrial city green? In this editorial collaboration with Project Drawdown, meet some of the climate heroes transforming Pittsburgh’s landscape.

When wildlife lover Malaika Vaz discovered that manta rays were being poached near her home in India, she disguised herself as a fish trader to figure out who was behind the plot.

John and Molly Chester gave up city life for the dream of starting a small farm. With no prior experience, they transformed the land from one crop to hundreds.

National Geographic Explorer Nirupa Rao marries art and science to catalog and capture the magic of the unique flora of India’s Western Ghats.

When Andrés Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, he learned of an old Incan legend: a “boiling river” hidden deep in the Amazon. Today he sets out to find it.

National Geographic Explorer Topher White has found that listening for the sounds of chain saws through hundreds of recycled cell phones might give us a chance to fight illegal logging.

Meet pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao, who tormented the South China Sea with her fleet of 70,000 raiders in the early 19th century.

In the most remote part of Guyana, plateaus called tepuis—also known as sky islands for poking through the clouds—rise up from the jungle. Biologist Bruce Means teamed up with professional climbers and Indigenous people to get to the top of an uncharted tepui named Weiassipu in search of frogs and adventure.

For 300 million people around the world, the vernal equinox marks the New Year. It’s a moment to link past and present and—according to National Geographic photographer Babak Tafreshi—what this halfway point means about our place in the universe.

There’s more than one way to find Amelia Earhart. An explorer could launch an expedition and comb every inch of the seafloor in the South Pacific, but the best place to look might be much closer than you think.

The truth about what happened to Amelia Earhart often depends on who’s telling the story. Yet with little evidence, the wide-ranging theories often discount the most important clue in the entire mystery: Amelia Earhart herself.

It turns out that machines show the same biases as humans. Now scientists are trying to teach them fairness.