Edmund Spenser was the greatest Elizabethan poet – and here ‘greatest’ means not just ‘best’ but also ‘biggest’. From 1579 he published poems which were designed to show that he was the heir of both ...

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Definitive evidence for life on a distant exoplanet like K2-18b was never going to jump up and announce itself. That planet is about 125 light-years away. Planetary atmospheres are complex, and ...

Four-time snooker world champion Mark Selby has revealed just how close he came to retiring from the sport last summer and says it was a mistake to play in last year's finals at the Crucible ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, that gas – called ...

VATICAN CITY — Here are some facts about Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88. - Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on Dec 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Italian immigrant stock ...

By Andrew Ross Sorkin Ravi Mattu Bernhard Warner Sarah Kessler Michael J. de la Merced Lauren Hirsch and Edmund Lee Pope Francis died on Monday. His loss, of course, is a loss for the world.

The pews of St. Edmund's Church in Breezy Point are charred and caked in debris after a 3-alarm fire engulfed the back of the church just before 2 p.m. Saturday. More than 100 firefighters ...

A fire broke out Saturday afternoon at St. Edmund Church in Breezy Point, Queens. Videos showed flames and smoke as New York City Fire and Police Departments responded. The incident drew significant ...

They may not be little green men, but the most promising signs yet of life outside our solar system have been detected by scientists. They believe an ocean-covered world 120 light-years (9.6 trillion ...