Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

Ding and her colleagues captured video footage of the nematode towers in fallen apples and pears in orchards in Konstanz, Germany. They describe their discovery in a study published Thursday in the ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

Father's Day will be here before you know it! Smithsonian Books has "dad books" galore for you to choose from to make his day ...