Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and representatives from the science, history and culture communities. More than ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

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Did you remember to pack everyone’s rain gear? With such unpredictable weather patterns these days, you never know when it’s going to rain on your vacation. If you are in the mountains, you can ...

The prestigious national Hodson Award is presented yearly to one government law office for extraordinary service and ...

The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

Jeffrey Rudolph ’78 developed a master plan to build the California Science Center into a center of science, learning, and ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

The bill signed by President Trump on July 4 includes money to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to Texas.

Aside from its public-friendly museum, the Center also houses the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, ...

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The shrimp feast in space has gone viral, but shrimp cocktail has actually been a go-to protein for astronauts for at least the past 60 years. Edward White, an astronaut on the 1965 Gemini 4 mission, ...