Cosmic Mysteries Swirl Around “Forbidden Planet”

Some black holes are ‘forbidden,’ ripples in spacetime reveal

Illegal To Defund NPR?

Meet the Arthropod That Originated Fangs

Bailing Out Chicago Would Send a Dangerous Message

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship

Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work

America Has Gone More Than a Year Without a Surgeon General. Has Anyone Noticed?

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

Trump Bullying Allies To Help in Iran Suggests He Knows the War Is Not Going Well

Alabama Birthing Center Regulations Are Nearly Impossible To Comply With. State Supreme Court Could Intervene.

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Love Around the Corner

Scientists spot never-before-seen shock wave around dead star

Microbes might be able to planet hop on asteroid shrapnel

Red tape on a blue planet

In the 1950s, Foucault sped around Sweden — quite dangerously — in a spectacular Jaguar

When Galileo’s Cosmic Convictions Landed Him in Court

Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab

‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’

Spectacular Cosmic Collision Captured in New Hubble Image

A little-known flu virus is sickening cattle around the world. Are humans next?