From Aldebaran to Vega, these gleaming beacons dazzle Northern Hemisphere viewers at various times of the year and provide a useful entry point into amateur astronomy | Continue reading
Despite their often dangerous stings, these creatures create serene scenes as they float through the deep dea | Continue reading
In a new biopic starring Kate Winslet, Miller's many lives—as an artist, model, muse, cook and war correspondent—need little embellishment | Continue reading
As hundreds of motorists take to the desert, their tracks damage the massive geoglyphs made by Indigenous groups in northern Chile | Continue reading
Scientists sent bioengineered heart tissue samples to the ISS to study how to keep astronauts safe during future long-term space travel | Continue reading
Researchers recently identified James Fitzjames, a captain on the ill-fated HMS Erebus that went looking for the Northwest Passage in 1845 | Continue reading
Most adult king penguins weigh between 31 and 37 pounds. At nine months old, a 51.8-pound Pesto is already looming over his parents | Continue reading
A new “health check” for our planet sounds an alarm bell on rising ocean acidification, which is driven by carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere | Continue reading
While no written records exist, new research has illuminated key details of the battle fought in northern Germany during the 13th century B.C.E. | Continue reading
Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as the "Holy Grail of birdwatching" | Continue reading
The team traveled from New Zealand to Tonga along a humpback highway to collect environmental DNA and raise awareness of the plight of the marine mammals | Continue reading
The mysterious missive was written by P.J. Féret, who conducted an archaeological dig at the same site in northern France in 1825 | Continue reading
Called the Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish, the cryptic species lives deep in the ocean off the coasts of New Zealand and Australia | Continue reading
In 1858, the mountain was named for a Confederate general. Now, it will once again be known as "Kuwohi" | Continue reading
An acoustic survey in 2018 and new analysis with A.I. suggest the sounds are vocalizations from the elusive Bryde’s whale | Continue reading
Researchers analyzed tiny fossils embedded in the limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist | Continue reading
The collaboration across species reveals a surprising social behavior of octopuses, researchers say | Continue reading
On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk | Continue reading
Unearthed last year, the remains could reveal new information on the extinct sea reptile, which crushed mollusks and shelled creatures with its large, round teeth | Continue reading
An A.I.-assisted study identified 303 previously unknown geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert. The art features surprising figures, like orcas holding knives | Continue reading
If the structures look familiar, it's probably because nature has been using them for a long time in places like nautilus shells, zebra stripes and onions | Continue reading
A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion | Continue reading
More than 250 years after a teenage Mozart wrote "Serenade in C," a copy of the piece has surfaced in the collections of a German library | Continue reading
The annual contest unveiled its winners, highlighting avian photos that focus on conservation issues, the beauty of birds and their sometimes hilarious behavior | Continue reading
The viewfinders are outfitted with special lenses that help people with red-green colorblindness distinguish between hues | Continue reading
The baby pygmy hippopotamus in a Thailand zoo has taken the internet by storm, and keepers hope she will help gain momentum for conservation efforts | Continue reading
The so-called good-luck flag, which hung on an American veteran's wall for many years, returned home last month after nearly eight decades | Continue reading
The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries about gravity, gravitational waves and dark matter | Continue reading
Female worker bees, which forage for the whole colony, struggle more to detect scents in the heat than males do, per the recent research | Continue reading
The Galeón Andalucía, which is now making its way to London, was designed to resemble the armed merchant vessels manufactured by Spain and Portugal between the 16th and 18th centuries | Continue reading
A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss | Continue reading
Computer scientist and meteorologist Amy McGovern has studied the technology for two decades, and she weighs in with some answers | Continue reading
A roughly 33-foot-long asteroid called 2024 PT5 will chart a horseshoe-like path around our planet | Continue reading
Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the artist was a careful observer of the world around him | Continue reading
The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large mammal ancestor with tusks, by at least a decade | Continue reading
Una Pizza Napoletana on the Lower East Side has claimed the top spot in an annual ranking of pizzerias around the globe | Continue reading
These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show why it’s one of the most-visited nations on earth | Continue reading
Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But who, or what, will find it? | Continue reading
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end | Continue reading
Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that once adorned the 2,000-year-old Temple of Edfu | Continue reading
Fluff and fuzz helped the creatures keep warm, blend in and communicate | Continue reading
Celebrating one artist’s century of geometric mastery. | Continue reading
A blockbuster exhibition in London examines the Dutch Post-Impressionist's creative output between 1888 and 1890, which was one of the most productive periods of his career | Continue reading
The “beloved” rodent named Cinnamon was spotted this week with help from drones. She has been wandering and eating grass after escaping her zoo enclosure last Friday | Continue reading
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit | Continue reading
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, according to a new study | Continue reading
Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they disappeared beneath the river's surface | Continue reading
To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters to help them find mates | Continue reading