What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

Thousands of years later, each lunar year is still said to possess certain characteristics of its animal namesake, and those ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...

Forensic Science on Trial is currently on view in the museum's Albert H. Small Documents Gallery, located in the east wing of ...

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