In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

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Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D., is the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon and the author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged ...

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Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...

American fitness entrepreneur Tracy Anderson counts Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna among her clients, and she has built a ...

Amelia Earhart went missing in 1937 while flying over the Pacific Ocean. Here’s everything to know about Amelia Earhart’s ...

A whitewashed box inside an industrial building dating to the turn of the 20th century in Boerum Hill gets a deep-plane ...

Yesterday, in a 6–3 decision in Trump v. CASA, the United States Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case ...

A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...