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Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

These ancient trees persisted for nearly 200 million years until they all but vanished. Now they line city streets.

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National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the ...