Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

The stone, which sustained damage in six spots, had been carved to fit perfectly in a palace wall hundreds of years ago ...

The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show what makes the City of Angels and its next-door neighborhoods ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

The Smithsonian Passport being used at the US Botanic Garden. . Since its founding, Washington, DC has grown significantly.

The repatriation comes after years of legal disputes over the true identity and provenance of the 6-foot-4 artwork, which has been housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art ...