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

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

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

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 ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

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

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

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

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

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...