Since its premiere in 1977, Star Wars has captivated generations with its mix of adventure, philosophy, and futuristic ...

On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would ...

An international team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States has managed to decipher the ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional astronomical observation techniques, a team of researchers led by Rutgers ...

In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima ...

The Headless Horseman Chasing Ichabod Crane, a play by John Quidor on Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In his work The Gothic, ...

The papyrus containing the only word written by Cleopatra herself that has survived to the present day. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...

The exceptionally preserved remains of a 5000-year-old woman from the Caral civilization. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Peru A team of archaeologists discovered the burial of a high-ranking woman at ...

Four photographs of the tapered part of the specimen. White rectangles marked with numbers indicate: 1 – areas of red-brown coloration of the type caused by heat at the tip; 2 – location of the ...

A rogue magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, is crossing our galaxy without a clear trace of its birth, according to a study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. This object, initially ...

On the vast canvas of the cosmos, where starlight typically reigns supreme, there are regions in which darkness not only persists, but dominates. One of them is Barnard 68, a dark nebula that, despite ...