NEWS

RALEIGH, N.C. — In case you missed it, this year features the Great American Total Solar Eclipse, the first one visible from the U.S. mainland since 1979. What better time to dive into details of the Sun and other stars, when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, Saturday, January 28, 9… Read More >

UPDATE: Parking is back to normal in the area of the Museum due to the inaugural events being moved indoors to Memorial Auditorium at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. The planned inaugural parade has been canceled. Due to the governor’s inaugural events, several state parking facilities near the Museum will be closed… Read More >

Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn’t look quite like anything astronomers have observed before. New research provides a first description of a well-defined elliptical-like core surrounded by two circular rings — a galaxy that appears to belong to a class of rarely… Read More >

RALEIGH—The Nature Art Gallery at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences presents “The Great Outdoors,” artwork by Robert Thurston, now through Sunday, January 29, 2017. Thurston is an oil painter living and working in Durham, NC.  He was born in Rochester, NH, where he spent most of his adult life. He says developing his… Read More >

RALEIGH, N.C. — Throughout time, the health and wellbeing of humans has been fundamentally altered by dramatic changes in the species we interact with. Much of this change has been brought on by our own destructiveness. Now, it appears, we are beginning a new, better informed phase of our relationship with other species. Learn about… Read More >