Danielle Olson is the managing editor for the Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal. She has a Master’s in Science Journalism and Communication from Stony Brook University and is an ocean lover and travel ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

Co-founded with his wife Efsun Erkiliç, it’s part of a sprawling Frank Gehry-designed complex called The Grand. With the ...

A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface.

A very rare fish sighting is making a splash on social media. A deep-sea anglerfish, with its mouthful of sharp teeth, was spotted near the surface of the water near the Canary Islands off the coast ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications.The deep sea is a ...