It's a "transient luminous event" or TLE that happens above the clouds, in the mesosphere, when there is intense electrical activity from thunderstorms below the clouds.

Like a lot of young Pittsburgh Pirates fans who were introduced to baseball in the 1970s, I had a Dave Parker poster on my wall. A shot of him with his massive chest opened toward the camera after ...

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.

In the Qualla Boundary of western North Carolina, the next generation of Cherokee potters are sustaining age-old traditions – while building a contemporary practice of their own.

Sarah Snook, who won a Tony Award for "The Picture of Dorian Gray," doesn't know how it would work as a film. But acting in it would be "a dream come true." ...

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.

If you have an old iPad and a hankering to see some of your thousands of photos in real life, you can turn your retired tablet into a digital picture frame. Here's how.

Yulia Bougouin, owner of First Step Aviation flight school, flies a Piper Cherokee 180 over The Berkshires. Bougouin also hopes to go into high schools and present aviation to kids, especially girls.

Two New Picture Books About the Transformative Power of Language A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation.

Johnson, 53, shared a video to Instagram on Thursday, May 22, showcasing two pencil-drawn portraits of himself that a 14-year-old fan named Orion sent to him for Johnson's birthday on May 2. He ...

A White House report blames a crisis of chronic illness on ultraprocessed foods, chemical exposures, lifestyle factors and excessive use of prescription drugs, including antidepressants.

‘Mr. Polaroid’ Review: PBS’s Picture of a Visionary An ‘American Experience’ documentary focuses on the inventor of the Polaroid camera, Edwin Land, a man of both brilliance and egotism.