The 169 yuan (RM100) gadget was meant to help his daughter, nicknamed Thirteen, learn English and astronomy. She named it ...

A HANDFUL of years throughout history are synonymous with a single event. It is impossible to think of 1066, 1776 or 1914 without recalling the wars and revolutions that changed the world for ever.

Mr. Freedland is a columnist for The Guardian and the author of the forthcoming “The Traitor’s Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany — and the Spy Who Betrayed Them.” ...

On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 aircraft, "Glamorous Glennis," achieving a speed of Mach 1.06. This flight disproved prevailing expert warnings that exceeding Mach 1 ...

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have spotted the most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) yet. The discovery could give astronomers a better understanding of how these unusual objects — ...

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across. Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles<" or ORCs, in distant, ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Charles Mitchell strode ...

How do you make a parable people have heard a hundred times feel new again? Cameron Bellm turns to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Russian literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky for answers. “It is the goal of ...

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was asked what the most fulfilling aspect of his life was during an interview with ESPN's Marty Smith ahead of his team's "Monday Night Football" matchup with the ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, shedding light on a decades-old star mystery. The James Webb Space ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Reports of fraud are grabbing headlines. Fraud we will always have with us. But it happens more ...