Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual seahorses worth more than $21 million ...

Learn how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked national debate and changed how many Americans understood ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better ...

How does art help us envision the future? Registration is open for Extended Bloom , an interactive performance by artist ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first European-trained artists to depict the landscapes of Dutch Brazil ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

Father's Day will be here before you know it! Smithsonian Books has "dad books" galore for you to choose from to make his day ...