The recent terror attacks in France have generated a great deal of anxiety about the sturdiness of one of the pillars on which her republican edifice has been erected secularism The word does not figu ...

The smaller constellation Leo Minor lies to the upper right (north) of Leo in the west this evening. Leo Minor appears ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

The Face of Jesus” examines two images of Christ — the Shroud of Turin and the Veil of Manoppello — as well as the image of ...

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant ...

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...

It's always kind to welcome a new baby by sharing some sweet sentiments with the lucky parents. Here are our favorite new ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...