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Discovery made her final voyage this week and has moved to Fairfax County, Va. to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.
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Though you won’t notice it, the moon is shrinking. Don’t worry; it won’t be disappearing anytime in the near future. The shrinking process has been happening for over a billion years and could possibly still be occurring.
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Meet Lucy's great-grandfather Kadanuumuu, who was found in Ethiopia recently. Scientists say the early hominid skeleton confirms human-like walking is more ancient then we had previously known. Have we found another piece of the missing link?
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A meteorite fell through the roof of a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia. It was a half-pound meteorite made of chondrite.
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A rare giant squid was captured in the trawling nets of a research vessel at the end of July off the coast of Louisiana, scientists are reporting. The 19.5-foot long monster weighed in at 103 pounds.
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With a Black man now holding the top office in the United States, the topic of “Black Power” may seem irrelevant and a strange choice as the subject of a symposium of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Cult
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Stephen Colbert is set to have his portrait grace the walls of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in a place the museum thinks is most appropriate -- between the bathrooms near the "America's Presidents" exhibit.
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Plans for a six-year U.S. tour by "Lucy," one of humanity's earliest known ancestors, have hit a major snag.
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WASHINGTON (voa) - Less than a week before the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' famous flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - the Smithsonian Institution unveiled its newest museum, dedicated to the history of aviation achievements through the...
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Hope Diamond, Wittelsbach gem to go on display together at Smithsonian museum.
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 The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection.
 Large-scale installations of Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers and other video games are now on show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, alongside paintings by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe. Should video games be considered a form of art?
The Smithsonian Institute began construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Feb. 22, 2012
 The space shuttle Discovery received a rousing welcome today as it was officially unveiled at its new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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PDAC, which opened last Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, attracted over 25,000 delegates from 125...
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