Modern shared threat: Pope Leo XIV said both religion and science now face the denial of objective truth as their most insidious challenge. Environmental duty: He stressed shared teachings on caring ...

A new collection makes room for verse by women aged 30 to 70. Someone has to record the personal wars fought every day, the book’s co-editors say.

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There's weather in space too, and when sunspot activity is at a maximum, orbital junk is more likely to rain down into the ...

Some ideas don't just move the needle. They flip the entire table. Throughout history, certain individuals arrived at a ...

There are no drive-up campsites where you can unload your gear from the trunk and set up camp ten feet away. Every campsite ...

Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations.

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NASA's Apollo 17 crew reported seeing three mysterious dots and sparks that resembled fireworks, according to new files ...

A heterological word is one that does not describe itself. Does "heterological" describe itself?

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces of nearby stars ...