As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms. Scientists have created the first detailed maps of ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, ...