One hundred years after John Wesley Powell’s historic trek down the Grand Canyon, National Geographic went on a commemorative ...

This Tennessee campground features a swim-friendly waterfall, offering refreshing swimming spots, peaceful views, and a ...

Discover scenic college towns across the U.S. with stunning mountain backdrops, outdoor adventures, historic campuses, and ...

Until his dying day, Northwest icon and alpine legend Jim Whittaker remembered his first glimpse at Mount Everest from the ...

Great white sharks have abandoned a former hotspot in South Africa. Some pin the blame on a pair of orcas. Others point the ...

The war in Gaza, the Southern California wildfires and Donald Trump dominated the nominations for the 47th Annual News & ...

National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations — earning 25 nods this year, followed by PBS’ “Frontline” series, which earned ...

The awards will be presented on May 27 and 28 in New York.

How well can a robotic bird mimic a real one? That’s what Grand Teton National Park is trying to find out with mechanical sage grouse replicas built to influence the behaviors of real sage grouse, ...

Gravitational waves may have provided the first tantalizing evidence of tiny primordial black holes born during the Big Bang, ...

Jim Whittaker, a Seattle-born and -raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak in 1963, died Tuesday in ...

On November 12, 2025, three gravitational-wave detectors on two continents caught a ripple in spacetime. This event did not ...