A favorite of cyclists, the park’s historic carriage roads offer 45 miles of woodland that’s free of motor vehicles.

A tent is pitched underneath the northern lights at Gates of the Arctic, the northernmost national park in the United States. This region of Alaska is among the best places on Earth for viewing ...

The aurora borealis has become more visible to more states in recent months, after activity on the sun’s surface peaked.

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

During a rich epoch in women's mountaineering, we examine Dora Keen’s 1912 ascent of 4,996m Mount Blackburn in Alaska, the ...

Northern Alaska and Canada have the best chance of seeing the northern ... high vantage point away from light pollution.

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National Geographic documentary streaming on Disney+, tells the story of the effort. It is the largest underwater 3D scan ever made, amounting to 16 ...

The bones he encountered belonged to a newly named species, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, which is part of the hyaenodonts’ family ...

Cloudy. High temperature around 47F. Dew point will be around 21F with an average humidity of 45%. Winds will be 3 mph from the N. Partly cloudy. Low temperature around 36F. Dew point will be around ...

A geomagnetic storm will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field after a recent burst of energy from the sun’s surface, pulling ...

Alaska has long had ambitions to ship its natural gas to international markets, but the cost and scale of such an undertaking has held it back for decades. But there’s been renewed interest in the ...