Every Veterans Day, Jeremy Redmon thinks about his father, Donald Lee Redmon — an Air Force veteran who survived more than ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston features paintings by Kahlo, works by artists she inspired and consumer ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Officials have proposed building a mini-Sphere in Maryland's National Harbor. One-third the size of the original, the ...

Icicles form on a fence and reflect the blue sky after an ice storm. Alexandra Lennox, Canada, 2021. As snow melts and drips ...

For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

The new space will feature artworks by the likes of Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois and Alexander Calder. Officials say ...