Courtesy Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.

Mother Tongue Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year with 10 days of programming: four days of in-person and six days of ...

Eggs have been crucial to vaccine production for decades. Bettmann/Getty Images ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

This innovative piece of memorabilia is a tintype of Augustus B. Hayes in a hardtack frame. At the age of 18, Hayes enlisted in the 1st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery Battery B Aug. 8, 1862.

Reptile Discovery Center staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Murphy, a 26-year-old male Komodo ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Image credit: NASA ...