Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids ...

Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

With teams competing in outlandish physical challenges, the Zogo dell’Oca of Mirano showcases Italy’s flair for invented ...

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...

To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and ...