America’s favorite multitalented Founding Father is celebrating his — checks parchment — 320th birthday Saturday, and the ...

Ben’s Birthday Bash' is set for Jan. 17, featuring hands-on games, electricity experiments and a very loud birthday finale.

The Franklin Institute's "Science After Hours" series continues on Friday, June 24, with the Summer Ball featuring LGBTQ+-inspired live performances, dancing, games, science demonstrations, and more ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- You could say Derrick Pitts is out of this world. The local astronomer and Philadelphia native has become a national treasure by reaching for the stars. He's had an amazing ...

The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia will once again host the controversial exhibit “Body Worlds” starting ...

Prepare to immersive yourself in a new future-focused space exhibit this fall. The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia announced its new $8.5 million core exhibit, "Wondrous Space", an immersive, ...

Kids and people nostalgic for their childhood days are once again going to race like blood through the Franklin Institute's Giant Heart months after the beloved attraction closed for an "Odyssey" to ...

The Franklin Institute is going to space. Not literally, of course. But the famed Philadelphia science museum, site of school trips for generations of kids from Bucks County to Delaware, is undergoing ...

Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts travels to the edge of the solar system (heliopause) at the new''Wondrous Space'' exhibit. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...