An exhibition in Brooklyn examines gold's ubiquitous appeal across thousands of years through art, artifacts, paintings, ...

Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

The torso of the bronze sculpture depicting Septimius Severus was repatriated last year, and a Copenhagen museum has now ...

New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought ...

A conservation project sparks innovative research on the National Museum of American History’s Gunboat Philadelphia.

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

From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...

All Is by My Side speaks about making living history from legend Max Kutner The Smithsonian has acquired some of the only ...

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