The iconic prop, which went for $14.75 million at auction, is one of several sleds used in the production of Orson Welles' ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

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NASA’s “Teacher in Space” added joy to many Americans’ lives and increased excitement for the future of spaceflight, though ...

Researchers found that trees in Wisconsin that had become hosts to the eye-catching species hosted only half the fungal ...

These reptiles often get a bad rap, but there are plenty of reasons to celebrate snakes The eyelash viper is a relatively ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

“Preserved blood vessel structures, like we have found in Scotty’s rib bone, appear linked to areas where the bone was ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to the innermost planet, and while researchers say they are ...

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...