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George Washington was born along this tidal creek in Virginia and, as a teenager, made one of his first surveying…

About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.

The expansion of greenhouses in southern Ontario is changing the appearance of the land surface—and the night sky.

After marching from Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and…

The Large Magellanic Cloud—one of our closest neighboring galaxies—is a hotbed of star formation that is visible to both astronauts…

Scientists say the seasonal crop fires are burning later in the day than in previous years.

An astronaut photographed moonglint shimmering across the sea surface and the bright clusters of Florida’s cities at night.

Satellites have tracked development over the decades as a small city in southern Nigeria grew to more than 2 million…

The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical…


