Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

Auroras emit swirling hues in the sky, mesmerizing spectators with their bands of color. Different hues come from different ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

Jeff Keith, a longtime resident and nonprofit founder, says he used duct tape to affix googly eyes to two public sculptures last month ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...