The Sloan Digital Sky Survey recently released the largest ever 3-D map of the sky with some 540,000 galaxies ...
Long thought to have been looted from northern England by Scottish tribes, the larger-than-life leg may have actually been ...
Painted around 1520, the newly identified painting is one of only three pure landscapes painted in oil by the artist. It ...
Scientists call the events permafrost detachment slides. Instead of thawing from the top down, these landslides seem to ...
New research suggests that medium-sized birds of prey such as short-eared owls feasted on the frogs during a "short, ...
The medications seem to act on the brain’s reward circuitry and help regulate inflammation, which is why they might have so ...
An intense selection process and long preparation helped set the crew up for cohabitation in a 3D-printed replication of the ...
Join the Archives of American Art on a deep dive through craft, demonstrating how archival collections and artists' own ...
At the Smithsonian | November 13, 2026 7:45 a.m. A new exhibition at the Washington, D.C. gallery celebrates half a century of collecting through portraits spanning the history of photography.
A metal detectorist recovered the brass artifact from the wreck of the "Ann Francis," a merchant vessel that sank off ...
The domestic turkey descends from a southern Mexican bird that the Spanish took home in the 1500s. The birds then spread through Europe, and colonists brought them back across the Atlantic. The bird’s ...