After being closed more than a month during the longest government shutdown all Smithsonian museums, research centers and the ...

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

The strange tale of two mummies discovered beneath the Prudential Center collides with the Devils’ run of bad injury luck ...

Conservation biologist Brian Gratwicke searches with his team for frogs in Altos de Campana National Park in Panama. Nate ...

Endlessly energetic, the sculptor, who died last year, was often overshadowed by her famous husband, Robert Frank — but the ...

The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the auction house ...

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

The government shutdown is likely to be a major talking point for both sides as they head into the midterm elections next year. Gov. JB Pritzker seems to think it will significantly help Democrats, ...

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand reading of the boundary-breaking, Obie Award-winning play, “What the ...

Why do Chicago and Illinois celebrate a Revolutionary War hero from Poland who never set foot anywhere near the state and ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington opens its doors Saturday to unveil a landmark exhibition of ...