Although it was only briefly seen during the live webcast of its launch, the Fram2 mission's zero-gravity indicator was ...

FITCHBURG — The Stephen DiRado show at the Fitchburg Art Museum is generous in both senses of the word. Large in size and ...

From wandering and jumping hours to more unusual displays, we track how time has been told throughout horological history.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, mandating the removal of what he calls ...

In 1915 the Sino-Russo-Mongolian tripartite agreement established Mongol autonomy under Chinese suzerainty, but the régime was short-lived, and in 1921 Urga, the capital, was occupied by Soviet troops ...

As far as U.S. politics reach, they don’t seem to extend to outer space, the astronauts said. “When we’re in there operating in space, you don’t feel the politics…We’re focused just on ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

The Civil War Museum has debuted a new exhibit highlighting advancements in technology made throughout the war.

No one on the crew has ever traveled to space. “My own journey has been ... traveled closest to the planet’s poles to date was a Soviet-era spaceflight called Vostok 6 in 1963.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Friday putting Ukraine under temporary governance under the U.N. umbrella as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the three-year-old war, a ...