National Geographic’s photography community is now on Instagram at @NatGeoYourShot. Please follow us there for the latest photos from the community and tag your photos #YourShotPhotographer for ...

This week, incredible footage showing a “bear’s-eye-view” of Andean bears has revealed never-before-seen behaviors, new ...

But before you head out for a night adventure — recently nicknamed “noctourism” — there are a few important things to keep in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As the year comes to a close, National Geographic has revealed the top pictures its photographers took in 2024. Photographers from the magazine traveled around the world ...

The end of the year is (almost) upon us and National Geographic is wrapping up 2024 with its annual "Picture of the Year" issue featuring photographers' most breathtaking and culturally relevant ...

National Geographic has been documenting our world for more than 130 years, immortalizing and documenting some of the most important moments in human history. This year’s Pictures of the Year ...

Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team. Divers from National ...

Hundreds of thousands of bioluminescent dinoflagellates live in each gallon of bay water, and the light show put on by these tiny creatures provide is truly a (natural) wonder to behold.

Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is a technology that uses light emitted by enzyme-catalyzed reactions to report activity at the molecular level. Bioluminescent reporters require a small chemical ...

A research vessel with the National Geographic Pristine Seas team found the coral in the Three Sisters Island group. The coral measured 112 feet wide, 105 feet long and 18 feet high with a ...

In nature, bioluminescence occurs in a wide variety of organisms. The light is produced thanks to chemical processes that release energy in the form of both light and heat. If one compares the ...