There’s no agreed-upon scheme to name boundaries and features across the Earth. “Denali” is ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in the U.S ...

There’s no agreed-upon scheme to name boundaries and features across the Earth. “Denali” is ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in the U.S ...

There’s no agreed-upon scheme to name boundaries and features across the Earth. “Denali” is ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in the U.S ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... many say they’ve seen a “spinning sun.” Physicist Artur Wirowski has an earthly explanation: It can occur ...

Jef Janis/NASA Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight excitement. Can this revolution around the sun we ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a mental map and compass attuned to the sun’s position and Earth’s magnetic field. These navigators also ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

Earth doesn't have a circular but oval-shaped orbit. It completes one revolution around this oval-shaped orbit every year, and reaches its closest point to the Sun around the same day. In 2025 ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar ... a four-day journey to the moon, located around a quarter-million miles away.

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...