Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

The sun has only just dipped behind the mountains and already ... Published in the November 2025 issue of National Geographic ...

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

Plans for the beloved cathedral’s reconstruction have been disrupted by the pandemic. But Europeans have faced a similar situation before.

For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads over one of the Sun’s most baffling mysteries: why is its outer ...

Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

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You may not know hall-of-fame photographer Steve McCurry’s name, but you’ve probably seen his award-winning work, including the iconic image of an Afghan girl with striking green eyes that made the ...

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The Coconino and Kaibab national forests will conduct prescribed burns this week, weather conditions permitting. On Wednesday, the Coconino National Forest plans to conduct a debris pile burn at the ...

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...