The air quality this week is bad. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has turned the sky orange in Philadelphia. It has veiled the ...

The Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab has one of the largest bird collections in the world and contains more than half a million specimens representing nearly 10,000 species—greater than 80 ...

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Last month, nearly a dozen wildfires erupted across southern California, sending plumes of smoke and particulate matter into the air. Public health officials in Los Angeles issued a multiday air ...

Other museum highlights include an entire gallery devoted to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Ohio brothers who invented, built and flew the world’s first successful airplane. On display here is the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A waterfront memorial at Rivergate City Park in Alexandria was unveiled Monday night honoring the first responders and 67 lives lost in the midair collision over the Potomac River in ...

In August 1988, tens of thousands of spectators gathered at Ramstein Air Base in what was then West Germany for a major international air show attended heavily by American military personnel and their ...

For over a year, Lonnie Bunch III, the head of the storied Smithsonian Institution, has been at the center of a political tempest. Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, the world’s ...

The Smithsonian Castle, the oldest building in the Smithsonian Institution’s museum complex, is open to visitors this summer during an extensive renovation project. The 171-year-old building on the ...

We are two months away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a paramount event worthy of celebration. Sadly, the Smithsonian Institution is reluctant to honor ...

Guatemala’s Santa Maria volcano sent ash plumes roughly 100 kilometers downwind during late May 2026, with fine particulate drifting into southern Mexican airspace, while Fuego volcano fired off a ...

Only a few Smithsonian museums likely will even have a special 250th exhibit. As a part of this initiative, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the anniversary by opening ...