Mother Tongue Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year with 10 days of programming: four days of in-person and six days of ...

American Trail keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) are mourning the loss of Gunther, a 33-year-old male gray seal who died Jan. 18. The median life ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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As the public face of the Smithsonian Campaign for Our Shared Future, a cohort of dedicated volunteer leaders is helping reach people across the country. Nine campaign co-chairs lead this integral ...

Cutting-edge technology designed to track and understand the secret, underground lives and behavior of the elusive black-footed ferret has been deployed in the wild for the first time. Believed to be ...