Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

The Sun is not nailed to the center of the solar system. It moves, wobbles, and traces a small loop through space, tugged by ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The Hulk has always prided himself on being the strongest and will smash apart anyone or anything that gets in his way.

He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

But in 2006, Pluto was in the headlines again, as the Paris-based International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined “planet” in a such a way that it was excluded from the official canon.

We usually stop and chat with him for a moment, most often about the weather. Sometimes the kids, Max, Abby, and Cam, wave to him again before running back to the car. It is a small, ordinary ritual, ...

When heavy snow and frigid cold blanketed the University of Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., in late January, two civil engineering and architecture majors saw the inclement conditions as an ...

Wonder World Cave & Adventure Park in San Marcos solves this problem by cramming an earthquake fault, observation tower, ...

Wonder World Cave in San Marcos threw that whole process out the window and decided to be formed by an earthquake instead, because apparently, patience is overrated. That faux-rock waterfall entrance ...

Remember, remember, this is now, and now and now.” The line from the poet, Sylvia Plath, opens “In the Blink of an Eye” with a quiet insistence, establishing a meditation on the ...