Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

I wasn’t necessarily looking to purchase a place listed on the National Register for Historic Places,” says Knight, “but when ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

Ari Daniel, the host of Smithsonian magazine's "There's More to That" podcast, is an independent science journalist who has reported across six continents and contributes regularly to National Public ...

Though sales of Frisbees remained steady, it wasn’t until Wham-O hired toy inventor Ed Headrick in 1964 as head of research ...

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among ...