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

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

Hours of exciting discoveries await at one of the biggest natural history museums on the planet.

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

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

Although many artifacts and faunal remains have been unearthed at the Olorgesailie Basin since 1942, only one hominin remain — a frontal bone — was discovered in situ in 2003, raising questions about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raleigh is well known for its quality of museums, not just quantity, and has often been referred to as the “Smithsonian of ..

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...