A newly discovered cosmic object is not a planet, not a moon — but a third thing we don’t have a name for yet. The object is about as massive as Jupiter and orbits a brown dwarf — a body that fuses ...

“A birth certificate is not ‘proof’ of birth,” a senior official from the Union Ministry of Birth, Death and Rebirth told me last week. He added, “There’s a common misconception that a birth ...

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I’ve spent a lot of time on the beaches of Lincoln City. I’ve been there for the Summer Kite Festival and on rainy winter days. I’ve meandered among the driftwood and dug for agates at low tide. Never ...

Beckoning audiences on a whimsical jaunt to always look on the bright side of life, the touring revival of “Spamalot” is especially winning for its unabashed determination to deliver on all manners of ...

Faithful recreations of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" scenes and a talented cast of clowns steer a revival that dances between nostalgia and modernity The cast is seen from the Broadway revival of ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object Arjuna 2025 PN7 was thought to be a meteorite in an Earthlike orbit, but that is now being questioned. The new hypothesis suggests that 2025 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Mundane wayward space snowball, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system’s latest and only third ever confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is almost certainly a ...