Recently obtained by the Library of Congress, the 1760 letter offers positive news about the health of four-year-old Martha Parke Custis, known as Patsy, the stepdaughter of George Washington ...

Brandie Smith, who leads the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has seen more of pandas' private ...

First shattered during the Reformation, the 15th-century stained glass is rife with religious imagery, comical animal scenes ...

Across seven yellow notepad pages, King is seen wrestling with word choice and revising his remarks the night before the ...

Communities nationwide honor retired service members in these images from the Smithsonian Magazine photo contest ...

Chris Melissinos, guest curator of an exhibit about video games at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explains what makes ...

A new study reveals the step-by-step process some octopuses use to cram themselves into tight openings. The findings could inspire new designs for soft robots used during search-and-rescue missions ...

Satellite data suggests water in and around the huge area filled with human-made debris has become more blue-green over the ...

Testing of ancient sediment from two lakes in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed "crazy" high concentrations of mercury, ...

The scientists were conducting fieldwork on a remote beach in northwestern Alaska when they spotted the roughly 5-month-old ...

Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita believed herself to be possessed by the spirit of St. Anthony. The movement she led in the early ...

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art digitized 89 oral history transcripts of women artists, historians, patrons, and ...