CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spiral galaxy’s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 ...

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swathes of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The Roman space telescope is ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

FILE - The Milky Way is seen over the Haleakala Observatory and the lights of Kahului, right, on Nov. 23, 2024, at the summit of Haleakala National Park near Kula, Hawaii. President Donald Trump fired ...

National Geographic's December 2025 issue features its annual Pictures of the Year. The issue features striking wildlife photos highlighting endangered species and fragile ecosystems. Some photos also ...

The Trump administration has changed which days Americans can visit national parks for free next year, removing Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth and adding President Donald Trump’s birthday, ...

This image provided by NSF NOIRLab shows NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly. (NSF NOIRLab via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a ...

As 2025 inches towards its end, National Geographic is celebrating the year by dropping its annual Pictures of the Year 2025, “highlighting the images that most inspired and defined the past year ...

Each year, National Geographic highlights a collection of the most compelling images captured by Nat Geo photographers over the past 12 months in their "Pictures of the Year." For 2025, Nat Geo ...

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have shared the expanse of our world with readers for well over a century.

National Geographic's top destinations annual list is back for "Best of the World 2026." Twenty-five locations, from all around the world, have been selected as the top picks for the most unique ...