As 2025 inches towards its end, National Geographic is celebrating the year by dropping its annual Pictures of the Year 2025, “highlighting the images that most inspired and defined the past year ...

Each year, National Geographic highlights a collection of the most compelling images captured by Nat Geo photographers over the past 12 months in their "Pictures of the Year." For 2025, Nat Geo ...

Sally Kirkland, a prolific actor best known for her Oscar-nominated role in "Anna" as a fading Czechoslovakian movie star who attempts to revive her career in New York, died Tuesday, according to her ...

Sally Kirkland, who earned an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe for her lead role in Anna during a 65-year screen career, died early Tuesday. She was 84. Her manager, Valerie McCaffrey, told ...

Sally Kirkland has entered hospice care in Palm Springs amid her battle with dementia. “She continues to receive medical care at a private facility where family and friends joined her on Halloween for ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

National Geographic's top destinations annual list is back for "Best of the World 2026." Twenty-five locations, from all around the world, have been selected as the top picks for the most unique ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.

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Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

Learn what science experiments will launch to the International Space Station aboard the Northrop Grumman CRS-18 mission. Credit: NASA New Documents appear to refute Lisa Cook Mortgage fraud claims: ...

Back in the early 1970s, when I was trying to earn a living as a (commercial) photographer, I could barely afford to fly, and the oft-repeated joke that our little regional airplanes were held ...