The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

Painter William Birch moved to Philadelphia from England in 1794 and made a name for himself for his exquisite enamel copies ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer ...