History

Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Friday after two drones crashed into the area

The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process

Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise

Synchronous fireflies; Grand Canyon fossil footprints

The triumph of NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in a half-century is a reminder of what the moon really means for Earth—and why we’re going back

Medieval poets, including a Japanese noble, provided key descriptions to track down solar events

The moon is now far in the rearview after a near-flawless spaceflight, but the crew of Artemis II aren’t home safe yet

The fifth day in space for Artemis II saw space suit tests, an Easter egg hunt and final preparations for an imminent close encounter with the moon