Webb’s infrared view reveals how gravity, turbulence, gas, and dust interact inside a crowded stellar nursery where young stars are taking shape in detail.

On October 28, 1864, near Newtonia, Missouri, Union cavalry caught up with the retreating Confederate Army of Missouri—and found its rear guard ready to.

In the middle of the Second World War, the Atlantic was a dangerous place for Allied ships. German U-boats prowled the waters, and aircraft often lacked the.

In 1393, Gian Galeazzo Visconti , Duke of Milan, had a problem with Mantua ’s ruler. His solution was not to send a stern letter, arrange a diplomatic.

A microscopic view reveals Naegleria fowleri, a rare warm-freshwater amoeba whose frightening nickname often overshadows the practical facts about risk.

In 1895, a remarkable fossil emerged from the rocks of South Dakota: the remains of an extinct sea turtle called * Archelon ischyros *. It was a big.

Forget golden sand and turquoise water. At Red Beach in northeastern China, the landscape goes full autumn-leaf dramatic—without a tree in sight. Located in.

A technician inspects the large sunshade for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late.

Some albums arrive neatly packaged, polished until every edge has been sanded off. DOGSTAR 1 , by I Give My Friends Flowers , seems more interested in doing.

Night has arrived in Sweden —but the sky hasn’t quite clocked out. High above the ground near Linköping , a delicate web of electric-blue clouds glows.