The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show what makes the City of Angels and its next-door neighborhoods ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

"Cristian en el Amor de Calle" by Costa Rican artist Matías Sauter Morera will appear in the museum's upcoming exhibition, ...