A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Ex-NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman has donated $15 million to support the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some ...

If a government wants to force a collective narrative upon the masses, arts, culture and media entities are necessary.

Images that can be seen as part of the Smithsonian Institute’s “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” exhibition that will be on display at the Arts Center of Hartwell June 7 to July 19, 2026 ...

Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...

Where’s Amelia? We’re still looking, though recent events seem to offer the possibility, the possibility I emphasize, that we may find out what happened to aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who, along with ...