When you live in D.C., the national monuments serve as your backdrop but the soundtrack is unmistakably Go-Go – the music born, bred and booming in the ...

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

“We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s ...

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The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

But the new research found that evaporated water on Bennu's parent asteroid left behind "the raw ingredients of life", said ...

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curator of globalization and chair of the anthropology department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The festival started small, first envisioned by Bell and launched in ...

Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Todd Young, R-Indiana are urging historical museums in Washington ... wrote in a letter to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the National Archives and ...

But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something ... The political history collections at the National Museum of American History, where I am a curator specializing ...