Is our universe haunted? This map certainly looks like something spooky is going on. The dark filaments crisscrossing the image aren’t ghostly trails—they…

A late-1990s Audi Cabriolet covered in fluffy red carpet and fake Ferrari badges becomes Los Angeles’ wonderfully impractical, unforgettable ‘Furrari.’

Today’s Wikipedia featured article spotlights The Kinks , the London band whose knack for sharp songwriting and unruly guitar sounds helped reshape rock music.

An ancient funerary urn in Catamarca, Argentina, recently yielded a striking discovery: a skull with a dome-like, almost bulbous shape. It may look like an u…

Great Britain is well practised at winter. We have coats, tea, and a national talent for discussing the weather before saying anything else. But winter 2009…

A routine pre-flight check is usually about the unglamorous essentials: walk around the aircraft , inspect the equipment, and make sure nothing looks out of…

On May 27, 1937 , the Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrians—and San Francisco promptly turned its newest engineering marvel into the world’s most spectacu…

Most elephants go looking for a snack in the usual places: a tree, a patch of grass, perhaps the neighbor’s garden if the neighbor has made a questionable fe…

On October 7, 2014, Rosetta snapped a selfie with a rather impressive backdrop. The comet-chasing spacecraft was some 472 million kilometers from Earth—but j…

On Oct. 21, 2026, teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St . Louis, Mississippi, tested RS-25 engine No. 10001. It was a big day for a powerful piece…