Book Review: ‘What Fell From the Sky,’ by Adrianna Cuevas, and ‘Oasis,’ by Guojing
In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily ...
She Designs the Book Covers You Judge
When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...
Space on MSN5d
What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know
Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a ...
Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands
The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...
The New Yorker2d
An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...
10 places to pick up a new hobby taught by Latino Angelenos
Our 10 picks for new hobbies taught by Latinx creatives will serve as inspiration to explore something new. Whatever the goal ...
Archaeology2d
An Egyptian Temple Reborn
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
Space on MSN2d
Crater-diving hopper 'Gracie' will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month
The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Snaps a Breathtaking Earth Selfie on Its Way to the Moon
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...
'Survivor Romance' Queen Jennifer Hartmann's 'Upbeat' New Book Is a Hollywood Fake Dating Dream — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Jennifer Hartmann — queen of 'survivor romance' — adds a new upbeat novel, 'Dream On,' to her repertoire. Following a ...