Federal funding cuts are impacting science institutions across America—including the Academy. Our chief of science shares what’s at stake and how you can help.

A colorful new exhibition at the California Academy of Sciences reveals the surprising ways California nature connects people, places, and species—and how we can keep it thriving.

How did life on Earth begin? Take a high-speed tour of key events since the Big Bang that set the stage for life. Starting with the first stars and ending with the tremendous biological diversity on ...

At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

Join us for an imaginative program to learn what it would be like to transform into a splitfin flashlight fish!

Have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine for children 5–11, or related questions about kids and coronavirus? Tune in live to have them answered by two very special Breakfast Clubs guests: the Academy ...

This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information. Representation of the Thunderbird and Gila Monster by Melvin Bainbridge, via the One Sky Project. Planetarium shows ...

This image shows a progressive zoom-in on JWST’s COSMOS-Web deep field, which is 200 times larger than the Hubble Deep Field and contains nearly a million galaxies from the early universe to today.

WHAT: Three fully mature sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) are now on exhibit for the first time in the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, sharing a habitat with the ...

San Francisco, CA (June 17, 2025) — In a groundbreaking step for avian veterinary medicine, the California Academy of Sciences has successfully performed a novel tendon stabilization surgery on a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 15, 2025) — A breathtaking image of a mother lemur precipitously leaping between jagged rocks in Madagascar, her baby clinging tightly to her back, has taken top honors in the ...

Mercury This season starts with the littlest planet descending into the glow of sunset and quickly getting washed from view on the way to inferior conjunction on April 11. It rises in the predawn sky ...