Pollution Time Machine: It’s not just living animals that carry remnants of humanity’s toxic footprint. Samples of bird ...

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, ...