As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

You don’t send an empty spacecraft into orbit by mistake. Early this morning, China’s Shenzhou 22 mission launched without a crew, headed for the Tiangong space station. Its goal: to replace a damaged ...

Gracie Muehlberger wrote letters to her future self and stored them in a multicolored trinket box on her dresser. Her notes, penned when she was 13 and signed “Gracie from the past,” bubbled with ...

Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being ...

Blue Origin is targeting Dec. 18 for its NS-37 suborbital launch, which will fly a wheelchair user to space for the first time ever. Whether you're a casual fan or a spaceflight enthusiast, see how ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...