Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.

One of the "world's best fossil sites" is located just an hour outside of the Windy City, according to Chicago Field Museum ...

As the weather warms up in Chicago, days spent at museums offer a respite from the outside heat. Chicago is home to a vast ...

The fossils at the Mazon Creek site are so abundant and so well-preserved that researchers can reconstruct a detailed ...

A small, dark and rigid space rock that touched down at the Field Museum last week could hold the answers to the origin of life in the universe, researchers say. The rock is just a portion of a ...

She'll use the museum's scanning electron microscope to get an up-close look at a tiny sample of Bennu. "What struck me is how dark the sample is. I had never seen such a dark sample," Heck said.