Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Scientists are mapping the characteristics that adults with ADHD share—and revealing new coping strategies for people living ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Reyhaneh Maktoufi loves a good story. She uses it to make sense of the world. Her own storytelling style leans into humor. “As most people who are artists will tell you, I often scribbled in a ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for astronauts to reach Mars.

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

Hatton declined to say what buyers could expect to bid on at Geek Week 2026. “Space exploration was my first auction and my first passion,” she told National Geographic. “I love the history of science ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

In celebration of Darwin’s 198th birthday, there will be lots of events–talks, etc.–going on around the world next week. I’ll be doing my part, heading to the Rockies to talk at Western State College ...

Older, Faster, Stronger is a National Geographic exploration into the science of what it takes to live a longer and more active life. In evolutionary terms, humans are pretty new at getting old. Since ...