Community members will celebrate the Wagnalls Memorial Centennial event on May 25, when the foundation turns 100.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers like Percival Lowell popularized the idea of Martian canals, suggesting that intelligent beings might have constructed them to transport ...

In the early 1900s, an American astronomer named Percival Lowell spent 15 years of his life attempting to convince the world he’d discovered canals on Mars. A passionate believer in intelligent ...

Even though the idea of lunar life is now considered foolish and the belief in canals on Mars has evaporated, the hope for discovering life beyond Earth has intensified. Much of this contemporary ...

Monitor lizards raced to catch a fish in front of amused crowds at a park in Bangkok, Thailand. Footage shows the first ...

The body of Gurpreet Singh, a TBM operator from Punjab, was recovered on March 9, while the body of project manager Manoj ...

FIRST IN PI: The entity that oversees Panama’s shipping registry and ports has added new lobbying firepower with ties to President Donald Trump as he doubles down on a pressure campaign targeting the ...

Over a century ago, retired Boston merchant turned astronomer Percival Lowell claimed that linear features he saw on the surface of Mars were canals, constructed by a dying civilization to ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere ... that the Red Planet was criss-crossed with artificial canals. Today—even though we know more about our celestial ...