The curious minds at What If explore life on Earth if our Moon were replaced with a giant disco ball, imagining the surreal ...

The big thinkers at Aperture reveal the first step toward understanding the theory of everything.

The great cities of the Maya lowlands dominated the Early Classical period, as we take a look at the latest instalment of our ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

At first blush, the structures in New Mexico built by the Chacoan people and those in Ohio traced to the Hopewell culture bear little resemblance. The Chacoans, accommodating the arid desert of their ...

Chaco Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwestern New Mexico, stands as one of the most enigmatic and astronomically rich ancient sites in North America. Despite the absence of a written ...