The highest mountain… is on Mars! Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in our solar system, standing at roughly 13 miles high. It’s about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level – ...

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During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence ...

Meteors can be pieces of asteroids (which are rocky objects that orbit the Sun) or comets (which are icy bodies with long tails). As comets pass near the Sun, they can leave behind trails of dust and ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be ...

What are some interesting asteroid belts in our solar system? There are a few notable asteroid belts ... size from small boulders to hundreds of kilometres in diameter. Some key facts about the main ...

In Japan, Autumnal Equinox Day is a national holiday. In Japanese, it’s known as Shubun no Hi (秋分の日), according to Coto ...

Embark on a journey into the world of a canine's sight capabilities. From understanding color vision to grasping motion ...

Well, well. There it is — in the first sentence, no less: the obligatory “former Marine” attribution to Daniel Penny. Of ...

This fall, there are five new diocesan seminarians studying for the priesthood. This brings the total number of diocesan ...