The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large ...

Una Pizza Napoletana on the Lower East Side has claimed the top spot in an annual ranking of pizzerias around the globe ...

Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that once adorned the 2,000-year-old ...

Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Many feathery dinosaur fossils found so far are from small animals, and Juravenator is among the tiniest of all. The ...

Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left ...

These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show why it’s one of the most-visited nations on earth ...