The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum received a $10 million donation from Northrop Grumman to support the transformation of the museum’s building in Washington, D.C. In honor of the gift, ...

Event Highlights. Events will take place throughout 2025 and 2026 and include the following: The Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival returns to the National Mall from July 2–7, 2025 with the theme ...

We take the audience on a rich and fascinating journey through our celestial neighborhood, as we look for one of organic life's key ingredients - liquid water. Why is Venus considered the hottest ...

Scientists now believe that our galaxy is filled with solar systems, including up to a billion planets roughly the size of our own. The film employs advanced, data-driven, cinematic-quality ...

The impulse to strike out into the unknown, to see what’s over the horizon… is as old as humanity. Today, a whole new horizon beckons. Scientists now believe that our galaxy is filled with solar ...

Special thanks to our Launch Collaborators, including artists, innovators, educators, technologists, and students, who developed these inspiring examples of what is possible with Smithsonian Open ...

Wool carders, 2012. Photographed by Christopher Payne (American, born 1968). S & D Spinning Mill (Millbury, Massachusetts). Courtesy of the artist. This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum ...

The National Air and Space Museum will host its annual “Sally’s Night,” event Saturday, June 21, from 6 to 11 p.m. as part of the Smithsonian’s “Solstice Saturday” programming. Held each June around ...

Features amazing scenes of places never seen before, gathered by key space missions, culminating with groundbreaking discoveries in 2015. It features a spectacular flight though the great cliffs on ...

With distinct alarm calls and yips, black-tailed prairie dogs are a highly social and communicative icon of the Great Plains. A new study published today in Animal Behaviour suggests other species may ...