In that moment, all of humanity was captured in a ghostly fragment of a pixel swimming through an unrelenting sea of darkness — a "Pale Blue Dot" lost in a void. Carl Sagan — the astronomer ...

For all but two games in his MLB career, Verlander has worn the number 35. But for Giants fans, that number belongs to longtime shortstop Brandon Crawford, who is the franchise’s all-time leader ...

the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered ...