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The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 will conclude its roughly 50-year jaunt through Earth’s orbit this weekend, with experts predicting it could crash back to our planet as soon as tonight (May 9). The latest predictions from the European Space […]

In the span of his infant papacy, Robert Prevost hasn’t had time to make many decisions: what to say from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, what to wear when he said it, and what name to take as pope.

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The wives in Mavis Gallant’s stories aren’t happy. In “The Flowers of Spring,” from 1950, a woman named

Some people spend a lifetime trying to unravel their relationship with their mother. That bond, after all, is fundamentally asymmetrical: Moms can watch their children become who they are, but children will never see their parents’ formative years firsthand. Who

Out of nowhere, for reasons mainly unknown (or unexplained), President Donald Trump has spent the early days of his second term insulting Canada and threatening its sovereignty, repeatedly suggesting that Canada should, and would, become an American state. He has

All of the biggest cities in the United States are sinking into the ground in places, new satellite data reveal — and 34 million people are affected. However, some cities are sinking faster and over a much larger area than

In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows — as well as riding equipment and the skeletons of two warhorses. Nearly

Surely, you remember The Orb. It’s been nearly a decade, but the image from Riyadh still prompts fascination, mystery, and a general feeling of Just what was that anyway? The glowing orb radiated from the center of a darkened room