Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.

Protecting 10 percent of the ocean by 2020 was a baby step toward creating a healthier ocean. One study found we're not even half way there.

After working in crisis zones, an epidemiologist wanted a way to stop shuffling papers and spreadsheet tabs.

There are only three northern white rhinos left in the world, and a worsening infection could be getting the best of one of them.

A clash of cold, dry air with warm, moist currents was able to stir up the perfect winter storm.

After a young woman was killed in South Africa, experts debate the safety of "lion walks" and other practices on private game reserves.

Instead of branching into new species, raven groups experienced something called "speciation reversal."

The discovery strengthens the case for protecting the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula.

Discover what to do and see in the Crescent City.

A ship returning from Antarctica has a chance encounter with a rarely seen type of killer whale.

Discovered in a parking lot in Japan, the tardigrade species could provide clues for how the animal has changed over time.

The footage could provide more information on Greenland sharks, an understudied deep-sea species.

The 5,000-year-old mummies have tattooed images of sheep, bulls, and mysterious lines.

For starters, the new tree calls into question a prevailing theory for why people stopped marrying close relatives.

But don’t fear, they only attack when they feel their lives are threatened.

Watch out this month for a planet promenade, a ghostly pyramid of light, and the final blue moon of the year.

Armed with new research, a team of scientists has been working with Indonesian governments on conservation management.

Painstaking new work suggests that the burning balls of gas started forming about 180 million years after the cosmos burst into being.

Spurred by his own experience, National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin is testing the power of technology and the brain to heal.

Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs recently made headlines, but the process has been available to the high-paying public for over a decade.

In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where prehistoric people once buried their dead—now submerged beneath the waves.

A new book challenges misconceptions about the Central and South American tree dwellers.

Staff complaints at a chimp sanctuary whose founder had no formal training in primate care point to problems compounded by weak oversight.

The daughter of daguerreotype pioneers, Alice Ball used her passion for chemistry to develop an injection that stayed in use for 20 years.