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900-year-old astronomy guide is oldest known book written in the Americas. In a rare reversal, archaeologists have determined that a Maya book written almost 900 years ago is genuine—after ...
Hidden beneath the rolling plains of northwestern Oklahoma lies a geological masterpiece that feels plucked straight from the imagination of a Hollywood set designer.
From nurturing critical thinking to powering weather forecasts and national security, space science holds the key to a smarter future. But in Bangladesh, a lack of vision and investment is keeping our ...
Joy Division’s iconic debut album cover features a strange white-on-black pattern that has appeared on a million t-shirts since 1979. But what actually IS it?
Whether you're taking another lap around the sun, buying to hold for decades, or literally running for miles on end, life is ...
This week's bookcase includes reviews of The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs and Never Flinch by Stephen King.
Ron Weasley is a fan-favorite character in the Harry Potter series, but the movies cut many of his most iconic quotes from ...
The weekend brings a JoDee Messina concert, Garden Fair 2025 and a Charity Guitar show, along with fundraisers, live music, ...
A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...
Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The orbital plane of ... softer than the harsher lighting from crater rim to floor. In his book The Modern Moon, Charles Wood writes that these domes are about ...
In his latest book, published this month by Simon & Schuster and excerpted here, Ferris reflects on his lifelong passion for amateur astronomy ... a night-vision star chart illuminated from ...