Documents and genealogies are helpful resources, but personal memories are invaluable keys to understanding your family ...

National Geographic’s latest docuseries brings viewers to the forefront of the 2004 tsunami and the people who lived through ...

Louis Mullan and his brother Theo were taken in by a neighboring family in England after their parents died in the world's ...

After the discovery of the world's tallest tree, the area where the redwoods were would become Tall Trees Grove in Redwood ...

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...

Hikers were responsible for the discovery of what scientists believe to be a prehistoric ecosystem. The first sign of the ...

Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their ...

“The first map Will produced for AG was Australian Antarctica, a fantastic map inserted into our fifth issue and released in January 1987,” says Australian Geographic’s founding editor Howard Whelan. ...

Today's Object of the Week is a magazine cover featuring a stunning photograph of a North East researcher and her team.

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only ...

Ker Than is a freelance science writer living in the Bay Area. He has written for National Geographic, New Scientist, and Popular Science. Researchers have found that stalagmites can help ...

Image credit: Australian Geographic Today Australia produces more than half of the world’s merino ... Image credit: courtesy State Library of NSW Superfine wool from the Macarthur merino flock, Camden ...