On Jan. 28, 2026, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted its furthest detectable galaxy to date. The announcement marks the closest astronomers have come to studying the early ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

See which books are being turned into movies or TV shows this year and read the original versions before tuning in! 2026 just might be the year of the page-to-screen adaptation! With on-screen ...

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early Universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster atmosphere (red), illustrating a large thermal reservoir of ...

From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas Pynchon. Readers also sought life advice from Mel Robbins, ...

Dr. Michelle K. Johnston chatted about her new book “The Seismic Shift in You,” and being a part of the digital age. On the concept for the book, she remarked, “The idea for ‘The Seismic Shift in You’ ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose an entirely new type of cosmic structure: black hole stars. These exotic ...

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are moments in life when a book comes along and shakes the very foundation of your worldview, pulling you into deep ...

The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors voted Thursday to remove books about transgender people or that state there are more than two genders from the children’s section of public ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their fringe cosmological models, we should note what this new study doesn't overturn.