Five years after launching toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has already uncovered unusual asteroid structures, including a previously unseen orbital configuration. According ...

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the Moon? An authoritative new ...

As a teenager, Gabriela Farfan became fascinated by the shapes and colors of minerals. Now, as curator of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she studies what they ...

Neither famous number is as simple as it first sounds. The real question is how much uncertainty each one can realistically ...

Smithsonian geologist Gabriela Farfan studies corals, gemstones and other minerals for clues to changing oceans and environments.

Saudi and international teams advance long-term research into north-west Arabia's human history, from prehistoric landscapes ...

This documentary explores the extraordinary story of Leviathan melvillei, one of the most powerful predators ever to inhabit ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment lasted less than a week in 1971, but its claims about human nature endured for decades. Now, a new Netflix series is bringing one of psychology’s most controversial ...

Scientists have cracked a 178-year-old mystery surrounding a train delayed by a solar storm, revealing that the famous incident happened in 1848 rather than 1841. The discovery rewrites the early ...

The Future History international science fiction award has shortlisted 120 works from 1,060 entries submitted by authors in ...

If there were a job guaranteed to raise questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s qualifications, overseeing women’s health ...

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old Hellenistic mosaic and four settlement layers at Türkiye's Kultepe, marking a first in ...