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

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

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 ...

For Earth Day, Smithsonian paleobiologist Scott Wing ... Meet the Women Transforming Science at the National Museum of Natural History Top Discoveries at the National Museum of Natural History ...

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

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian station or Federal Triangle station.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...