Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Indiana Humanities is now accepting applications for one of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibits to visit small Indiana towns ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian station or Federal Triangle station.

In a staff-wide email, the organization said it was complying with Trump’s executive order banning federally funded diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Hours of exciting discoveries await at one of the biggest natural history museums on the planet.

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...