The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

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Youngstown Vindicator: Eyes were on the sky in November 1899 for Leonids meteor shower Brilliant fall of meteors is expected shortly after midnight. Will be visible here. Director Pickering of Harvard ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Wyoming photographer Ken Driese has come across a lot of abandoned places in his treks across the Red Desert. But one place left him spooked. He ...

In early modern Britons consulted diviners to find stolen goods, learn about the next harvest, or scrutinise their marriage ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

Patrick Irwin Neptune is named after the god of the ocean for its azure coat ... nonprofit Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, recalls tracking this storm cloud with ground ...

Not quite — NASA calls this nebula the "Hand of God." It is actually a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova. Yikes! This ghastly face in space ...

If China and the west ever came face to face, they did so here in the quays ... dance, textiles, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, mythology, language and literature. Sanskrit became the ...

Plenty of excellent books are coming out in early 2025. Suzanne Collins has written a new Hunger Games book, and Rebecca ...