Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

In the U.S. there is no royalty, but as Jeffrey Post, curator emeritus of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, points out, “There is still a fascination about ...

The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Leader’s celebration of Lexington’s 250 years introduces you to a woman known simply as Mona by her family in Louisville and ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., and lead author of one of the Nature papers released today, pointed out that especially when ...

"I've been waiting for 20 years to tell you about this work," said Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. He said Bennu is "a rubble-pile asteroid, relatively ...