In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

Makenzie Van Eyk wrote the letter as part of a class project in 1998, when she was in fourth grade. Recently, the note was ...

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...

Next time you’re walking through fallen leaves in a forest, keep an eye out for the Eastern red-backed salamander—a small ...

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

Scientists say just 200 grams of the material could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree ...

Found in western Germany, the stone plaques feature etchings of fish trapped in grid-like nets, according to a new study ...

On this day in 1718, the Royal Navy attacked and killed Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, off the coast of North ...

The insects participate in elaborate courtships, are devoted parents, occasionally eat each other and have a gregarious ...

Officials claim the items once belonged to an influential Etruscan family that lived around the third century B.C.E. Reuters’ ...

See airplanes of all sizes, shapes and colors from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...