NASA has paused operations of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aboard the International Space Station ...

For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania ...

After India's recent lunar south-pole win and high-profile missions, interest in space is rising nationwide in Tier 1, 2 and ...

The 169 yuan (RM100) gadget was meant to help his daughter, nicknamed Thirteen, learn English and astronomy. She named it ...

Driving through country roads in autumn, you will likely see swaths of cornfields ready for harvest or rolled stacks of hay drying in the sun. The fields almost look as if they came from an old ...

A HANDFUL of years throughout history are synonymous with a single event. It is impossible to think of 1066, 1776 or 1914 without recalling the wars and revolutions that changed the world for ever.

Mr. Freedland is a columnist for The Guardian and the author of the forthcoming “The Traitor’s Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany — and the Spy Who Betrayed Them.” ...

On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 aircraft, "Glamorous Glennis," achieving a speed of Mach 1.06. This flight disproved prevailing expert warnings that exceeding Mach 1 ...

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have spotted the most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) yet. The discovery could give astronomers a better understanding of how these unusual objects — ...

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across. Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles<" or ORCs, in distant, ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Charles Mitchell strode ...

How do you make a parable people have heard a hundred times feel new again? Cameron Bellm turns to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Russian literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky for answers. “It is the goal of ...