A new mobile app from San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum lets users dig into the science behind the most extraordinary celestial event of the year: the total solar eclipse that will sweep ...

Cakes that look like a museum’s Mondrians. Seawater cocktails served atop an exhibit on icy bodies of water. And optical illusion cupcakes that mess with your mind. These days, no self-respecting ...

The Exploratorium, San Francisco’s popular hands-on science museum located at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina district, is unveiling long-awaited plans for its future home at Piers 15 and 17 ...

Life in Space” runs until September at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and is about the extreme conditions beyond Earth ...

At the Exploratorium, one does not stand stiffly in front of musty exhibits and read tiny placards. There is no room for boredom or passively observing. The installations at this interactive science ...

When the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s celebrated science museum, opens in its new location on a pair of renovated piers April 17, the knowledge seekers and tinkerers of the world will be reunited ...

The Exploratorium museum announced Monday that it had reached a net-zero energy goal, which they said makes it the largest museum to do so in the United States. Sitting along Pier 15 in San Francisco, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It is a hot day at the Palace of Fine Arts, but no one is bending down to take a promised drink. The spout, gleaming with polished chrome, looks like those on many new water fountains.

When the Exploratorium in San Francisco reopened in April at a new, larger site on a waterfront pier, museum officials expected a crush of crowds — so many additional visitors that they worried the ...

The Exploratorium, that quirky, hands-on science museum on the Embarcadero, is spreading its exhibits to exotic places, from Turkey to Abu Dhabi and beyond — and as close to home as the new children’s ...