A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization.

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao officially greeted the public for the first time at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C.

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

Nestled in the southwest corner of the Iowa’s portion of the unglaciated Driftless Area, the countryside around Oelwein is ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

DC! Welcome back from the long weekend. This week, you can meet the Smithsonian National Zoo’s precious new pandas, or play a ...

Innovation and invention can be found in the most unlikely of places, and that is precisely what a traveling Smithsonian exhibit hopes to get across during its stay in Building 20 of Legacy Plaza in ...

An island ten miles off the coast of Maine with roughly 50 year-round residents represents centuries of ecological ...

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...

Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Meilan Solly Senior Associate Digital Editor, History After 443 days, Washington, D.C.’s panda drought has finally ...

Tennessee State Rep. Todd Warner wants to rename Nashville International Aiport for President Donald Trump. Here's why that's not appropriate.

Ingozi (left) and Cabara, African lions at the St. Louis Zoo in 2016.  ST. LOUIS — Cabara, the St. Louis Zoo's only remaining ...