Every year, thousands of kids and adults learn to fold and fly paper airplanes at both the National Mall building and the ...

You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

The award-winning novel 'Orbital' explores the inner thoughts of astronauts during a single day aboard the International ...

In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people ...

It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth. The good news, according to NASA, is that for now, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%. The ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... Soon the pair has succumbed to a magnetic, earth-shattering attraction, and the narrator has checked into a nearby motel ...

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The January 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at ...

For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...

Alien: Earth is coming up this summer, and we know it's going to be a scary ride. The first-ever TV show in the sci-fi franchise is set to channel the horror vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien as the ...