After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...

The decision ends a longstanding agreement between the National Gallery and the Tate concerning what kinds of art each museum ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the ...

See images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest and find out for yourself why Spain is so special. Donny Bajohr is the ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

The invasive arachnids were first spotted in the park last year, and now, researchers hope to keep tabs on when and where ...

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ...

Christie’s is shutting down its digital art division—a significant pivot for the auction house, which helped ignite the art ...