An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock – dubbe ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums, educational ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution is celebrating one of the most powerful voices in contemporary filmmaking. Ava DuVernay, the visionary director, writer and producer behind ...

It’s one of the most profound questions in science – did life ever exist on Mars? Now, experts have unearthed evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. Scientists have found carbon ...

For 178 years, the Smithsonian Institution and its 21 museums, 21 libraries, 14 education and resource centers, National Zoo, and other affiliates have been responsible for chronicling and ...

The letter is in response to an executive order the president signed in March. House Democrats are demanding the White House preserve the independence of the Smithsonian Institution after ...

By Graham Bowley Robin Pogrebin and Jennifer Schuessler In response to President Trump’s effort to reshape the Smithsonian Institution, four Democratic members of a House oversight committee ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has revealed new clues about Mars' volcanic past. While most people searching for signs of alien life these days might have their eyes on the exoplanet K2-18b ...

Cornell’s Office of University Investments is in New York. Prior to Cornell, Smith was a managing director at the Smithsonian Institution, which has a $2.6 billion endowment. He had worked for ...

Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars. Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing ...