Known as a “genius,” the protective spirit or deity was believed to bring good fortune and prosperity to a particular person, ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Built in the 1940s, Big Boy No. 4014 retired in 1961 after traveling for more than one million miles. It's now making its way ...

Bids on "Gus" will start at $19 million, a steep price for public institutions. Specimens in private collections can be ...

The exact timeline for the spacecraft's display hasn’t been announced, but the artifact will fit into an upcoming exhibition ...

In a new report, the World Health Organization predicts that new annual diagnoses will rise from about 20.6 million today to ...

In celebration of National Rock Day, learn how several rock specimens in the new exhibition “From These Lands” shed light on ...

Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip-flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid ...

The population of eastern gray whales, which annually migrate along the West Coast between the Arctic and Mexico, has been ...

The discovery suggests humans may have maintained relationships with wolves long after domesticated dogs came on the scene ...

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...

This November, visitors to the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles will get to see the "ready-to-launch" ...