These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

Jeff Keith, a longtime resident and nonprofit founder, says he used duct tape to affix googly eyes to two public sculptures last month ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...