A sightseeing helicopter that plunged into the Hudson River near New York City last year, killing a family of five and the ...

The Office of Legal Counsel has called the Smithsonian a “very unusual entity” and a “historical and legal anomaly.” A ...

Flying in total darkness across icy Atlantic waters in the early hours of January 30, 1948, a passenger aircraft making a ...

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 ...

Nestled in the northern boundary of New Jersey's pine barrens is Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, site of one of the most famous aviation disasters. It was here on the evening of May 6, 1937, that ...

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 ...

Outside the Smithsonian Castle, construction crews are scrambling to build President Donald Trump’s version of American history on the National Mall: the Great American State Fair. The 16-day “World’s ...