Hagerman Valley Historical Society clarifies origins of its prehistoric horse skeleton replica, announces museum expansion to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Scientists also discovered pieces of charred wood at the Kostenki 11 site. This indicates that Ice Age humans had access to ...

When you think of New York City, images of towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, and iconic landmarks like the Statue of ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals allowed the elemental ingredients of life to intermingle.

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian station or Federal Triangle station.

Following college and graduate school at Yale University he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey before coming to the Smithsonian ... Science at the National Museum of Natural History Top ...

including his laptop’s journey to the “Value of Money” exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History. “Words cannot express the immense honor I feel ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...