Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

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A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Immortal Thor has led readers inexorably down the road to Thor’s death. Al Ewing’s latest Immortal series has taken Thor’s ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

A study from Okayama University links finger length in rats to sexual behavior and preference, offering new insights into ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Once the jacarandas are in bloom, as they have been for the last few weeks, it’s a sure sign that summer’s heat is on the way ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

Sprites “are transient luminous events” that “are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms,” astronaut ...