As for the ceremony, which will be broadcast on ABC and streamed on Hulu and online, Conan O’Brien is host again — and we’re ...

Schopenhauer called it a fool’s paradise, a state of blissful confidence created by complete ignorance of what you don’t know ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

Virginia lawmakers are on track to codify a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision that protects a child’s right to an education regardless of their immigration and citizenship status.

The federal government is not yet saying anything about the people who were detained by immigration enforcement officers in raids they conducted in Manhattan last month.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday failed to respond to a request for public records related to local arrests, in violation of federal law requiring a response ...

Collectors are paying a high premium for Victor Wembanyama autographs that feature his alien sketch. This detail helped push ...

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...