From headline-making discoveries to intimate human portraits: Best of 125 Years features unforgettable stories and explorations that not only captured our imaginations, but that still inspire us ...

This is a voyage of discovery everyone can make. THE NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION is a yearlong series of articles celebrating National Geographic at 125.

Just so we know whom to thank. THE NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION is a yearlong series of articles celebrating National Geographic at 125.

The journal of the National Geographic Society officially launched in October 1888. Since then, National Geographic has expanded its global reach to over 60 million readers, a TV channel ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Last October 22, at 9:29 a.m., a bell rang in the main office of Yuri Oganessian’s lab in Dubna, north of Moscow.

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The village chief, a wispy fellow with an easy smile and snowy muttonchops, came aboard James Cameron’s expedition ship ...