When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own food since long before ...

Stories of Race and American Sculpture” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines for the first time the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of ...

Kiwi feathers collected from across the U.S. and Europe will soon be winging their way home in a repatriation effort between the U.S. and New Zealand. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) now has on view a larger-than-life, vibrant depiction of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion by artist Christopher Myers.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has accepted the donation of the papers of the late inventor Jerome H. Lemelson, a gift from the Dorothy Lemelson Trust. The Jerome H. Lemelson ...

In the fall of 2023, a space capsule landed in the Utah desert carrying something special: samples from an asteroid called Bennu. NASA sent a probe to the asteroid, in the first U.S. mission of its ...