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WISE RIVER, Mont. — Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly…

CrossingsBen GoldfarbW.W. Norton & Co., $30 Nearly 65 million kilometers of roadway crisscross the Earth — enough to encircle the…

astrophysicist: A scientist who works in an area of astronomy that deals with understanding the physical nature of stars and…

Are there galaxy-trotting extraterrestrials zipping through Earth’s skies?A report released on Thursday by a panel convened by NASA does not…

Occasional flashes light up Venus’ shroud of clouds. Previous analyses have hinted that the bursts of light could be lightning…

accretion: (in astronomy) The growth of any celestial object due to bringing in new building materials, such as gas, plasma,…

Star Trek fans and spider enthusiasts have unexpectedly converged on a new frontier.Scientists in Brazil announced that they had identified…

On a series of expeditions along the spine of the Andes Mountains, a team of high-climbing researchers has found mammalian…

Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size…

As an amateur historian studying Philippine-American history in Washington, D.C., I’ve long been familiar with the story of Arturo Rotor…