Auroras, nebulas and stars take the spotlight in this space-themed competition, alongside shots of our own sun and moon ...

Aphra Behn, the 17th-century author, is best known as the first Englishwoman to make a living from her writing—but despite ...

Early photographers sold their snapshots to advertisers, who reused the individuals' likenesses without their permission ...

Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana ...

These quirky institutions tell the stories behind everything from sewers to perfume, medicine to magic From the Louvre to the ...

The previous earliest evidence of figurative art was a painting of a pig in an Indonesian cave that dates to 45,500 years ago ...

Learn about the short-lived British prime minister who negotiated a peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War.

Only a few U.S. museums still employ the specialists. The rest rely on a small group of highly skilled contractors ...

Researchers are excavating the remains of a Bronze Age roundhouse hiding beneath a field in Cardiff, Wales. A series of digs ...

Sam Sanders is the author of Your Next Big Idea, a book about entrepreneurial creativity. He teaches at the University of the District of Columbia and is working on a forthcoming book on how play can ...

Locals had long shared stories of Collyweston Palace. Then, excavations in England's Midlands revealed traces of the fabled ...

A father-and-son team of scientists are trying to revive ancient grasslands by reintroducing large grazers ...