Curious Collections” is currently on display at the Vacaville Museum, highlighting the extensive, and often unusual, history ...

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has received its largest individual monetary gift since Andrew Carnegie founded that ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

NASA has unveiled the initial analysis results of samples collected from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft and returned to Earth in 2023, ... Continue Reading → ...

The $150 million project rationalizes the museum’s program and ensconces additions with a glacier-inspired glass and GFRC facade.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that asteroids hold molecules believed to be the precursors to these chemicals.

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“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a ...

A German museum has removed a portrait of billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk from its space technology exhibit, citing challenges in honoring living figures amid shifting public perceptions.