For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...

A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern ...

The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

The State Department’s $100 million art collections are managed through the Office of Fine Arts and the Art in Embassies office.

On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno ...

The theme for the 2025 NAACP convention is “The Fierce Urgency of Now,” and includes free events for non-members to attend.

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history ...

Armed with a tape recorder and open ears, Tony Schwartz turned everyday noise into lasting art. Now, his recordings live on at Smithsonian Folkways, where they continue to inspire new ways of ...

Critics warn that the United States may soon be taking on more nuclear safety risks after Donald Trump fired one of five ...

Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls ...