Most people think of deserts as sweltering expanses of sand, but not all deserts fit that scorching stereotype. Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one ...

National Geographic was founded in 1888 by a group of visionaries who embodied an era of exploration, discovery, invention, and change. With offices around the world and headquarters in Washington ...

Polish adventurer Mateusz Waligora is returning to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia next month. Waligora plans to fat bike from the Altai region in Western Mongolia to the city of Sainshand in the East.

Travelers will soon be able to explore new destinations with exciting additions to National Geographic Expeditions for 2025 and 2026. If you’re looking to explore the globe in a whole new way ...

Kenji Kai, a meteorologist who specializes in yellow dust, reckons he was lucky when his vehicle was engulfed in a sandstorm near the Gobi Desert in Mongolia two years ago. He managed to record a ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

Explore the 7 Wonders of the World—ancient and modern. Learn where they are, when to visit, and how to plan your next ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

A Chinese commercial space launch company is continuing its success with a small solid rocket ahead of a more ambitious ...

Laphonza Butler, along with Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), introduced legislation in April to designate the Chuckwalla National Monument. Then in September, Padilla and Butler introduced ...