The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a ...

"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in the planet's ongoing story ...

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the ...

This summer, the artist's historic home and studio are opening to the public alongside a massive retrospective exhibition at the museum that once refused his works ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

Before there was R2, however, there was Robonaut 1A, R2’s older sibling. Unlike R2, Robonaut 1A has no legs, but with its ...

The artist's ceramic pieces combined practicality with aesthetics. Now, seven of his hand-painted dishes are heading to the ...

The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs ...

Ornithologists and locals wonder what the future holds for this chick being raised by much taller, but still doting parents ...