A crisp portion of fish and chips remains the ultimate coastal comfort food — and Cornwall is home to some of the UK’s best, ...

From a clifftop walking trail to a subterranean Roman villa, via a martini worthy of a film star — here’s how to make the ...

Mars has captivated humans since we first set eyes on it as a star-like object in the night sky. Early on, its reddish hue set the planet apart from its shimmering siblings, each compelling in its ...

As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming. The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

Travelers love animals. We want to get close to them and learn more about them. But the reality that many tourists don’t see is that to stay in business, animal encounters, such as elephant ...

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Be sure you’re the first woman somewhere,” an editor advised budding photographer Dickey Chapelle as World War II ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that ...

If you’ve noticed more people biking in town over the last year or two, it’s not just in your head. Biking has exploded during the pandemic, with millions of Americans mounting bicycles for ...

This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...

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 ...