This prompted astrophysicist and National Geographic Explorer, Ved Chirayath ... Ved is adapting space exploration tools to map Earth’s oceans in detail. His passion for using technology ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Researchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive ...

Google announced Monday that it will add the new name to Google Maps as soon as it's acknowledged by the Geographic Names ... in tribute to Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

The magnetic north pole is different from the geographic North Pole (or “true ... north pole was first discovered in 1831 by Arctic explorer James Clark Ross. On an expedition, he mapped and ...