The original mailing wrapper that contained the Hope Diamond was sent from New York to the National Museum of Natural History in 1958 for a total fee of $145.29.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has hundreds of scientists, researchers, curators and collection managers who connect people everywhere to life’s unfolding story. Here is ...

‘Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World’ National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Through November 2. For “Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World,” the curators at the National Gallery ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

Channel Islands National Park includes Santa Rosa Island, a virtual natural history museum with miles of uncrowded trails and breathtaking cliff-top ocean views. TRAVEL Explore 13,000 years of ...

In the face of several high-stakes challenges, Syed’s debut U.S. show opened at the Newark Museum and showed how beauty can ...

Obata, detained in a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent, urged turning to "Great Nature" to ...

Measurement standards underlie most fields of science – without them, researchers couldn’t compare the results of different ...

At the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time. Van Cleef and Arpels, a luxury French jewelry company, mirrors the wonders of ...

This tiny stone is an anomaly of geology. It is the rarest kind of diamond — graded “Fancy red,” pure and unmodified by other ...

The home, also known as Clear Comfort, was lived in by Austen -- who is recognized as one of the earliest and most prolific ...

National Dinosaur Day is on June 1st! To celebrate today we chatted with a paleontologist from Texas Science & Natural History Museum, Liam Norris, and Managing Director, Carolyn Connerat, abou… ...