This exhibition features more than 20 sets of large-format images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.

Travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, in this Space Show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Witness the arresting beauty and surprising diversity of moths in a presentation of more than 30 large-format prints by Canadian photographer Jim des Rivières. 

Courses for NYC high school students interested in the sciences offered late February through mid-April 2013.

This five-session creative writing class at the Museum, taught by Hannah Tinti, will focus on the natural world, with each session held in a different gallery.

What distinguishes a dwarf planet from a planet? In this program, we will explore the wheres and whys of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, and discuss astronomical “species” such as planets, brown dwarfs, and star clusters.