Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, from 1902, is one of the earliest films ever made andis classified as an adventure short that runs a brief 14 minutes, standard for the period. But just as ...

A first-of-its-kind video showing the ground cracking during a major earthquake is even more remarkable than previously thought. It not only captures a ground motion never caught on video before but ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...