Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

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The turtles danced with the most enthusiasm in the tank when they knew they would get food. This was "strong evidence" that ...

Parents need to know that National Geographic Education focuses heavily on science, world events, and history. It contains a vast amount of multimedia content -- including videos, photos, games, and ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts considers Yemayá a powerful teacher of Black history. The West African Yoruba religion considers Yemayá the goddess of the rivers and seas. The ocean ...

It’s a small world. It’s a wide world. Both phrases are used in lyrics, titles and more. A more accurate statement might be: Earth’s circumference (at the equator) is 24,901 ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Reaching heights of over 300ft (the same height as Big Ben), sequoias are the largest trees on Earth. Native to the Sierra ...

Disappearing bees provide part of the plot line in one of my favorite episodes of “Doctor Who.” “The Stolen Earth” is the 750th episode of the incredibly long-lived British science fiction tv ...

An international research team led by a Maltese marine geologist has uncovered evidence that the largest flooding event in known history ... Micallef - a National Geographic explorer whose ...