When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The National ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

Excavations in Norway revealed a rich variety of artifacts, including jewelry, textile tools and stones positioned in the shape of a ship Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Researchers think there may ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Discover one-of-a-kind travel experiences to satisfy your yen for learning and discovery Meet Smithsonian Associates in Arizona to embark on a springtime exploration of some of the Grand Canyon ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...