The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

Standing at the edge of Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona feels like peering into another world—a massive bowl carved into the Earth by a visitor from space that arrived with the subtlety of a ...

Public scientific literacy in the Xizang autonomous region has risen sharply over the past 60 years, transforming from a very ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Houston next April for an event that looks at the science behind famous ...

With widespread layoffs and diminished funding currently sweeping the scientific community in nearly every field, "Just ...

Bats, spiders, toads, and black cats seem to get all the attention around Halloween, with owls often left out of the ...

What has happened now? Why, it was only SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who is NASA’s most important contractor, referring to the ...

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.