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

What is included in the Smithsonian magazine digital edition? The Smithsonian magazine digital edition includes all the editorial content and photos from the current print issue of Smithsonian ...

After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned ...

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

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

Sara Hashemi is a science writer and fact-checker currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Sierra, The Body ...

In places like Colorado and Minnesota, international teams of talented snow artists are creating larger-than-life ...

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

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

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 ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

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