Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

As a group of players from an all-women’s baseball league in the 1940s and ’50s gathered at a recent reunion, the future of women’s baseball looks bright again.

Public records show Meadows is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own — and may never have visited — as his legal residence weeks befo...

UNC Asheville continues to struggle with enrollment challenges, but the chancellor says she has a plan to turn things around.

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

The U.S. military is preparing for combat in space, including areas around the moon. This announcement on Wednesday follows the Air Force's recent revelation that it has deployed space control weapons...

New Hubble data shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution.

Humans may prize nature for notions of quietude, for serving as a refuge from highway buzz and construction grind and office chatter and the anxieties that accompany them. “I go among trees and sit st...

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

The International Glass Plates Group (IGPG) team, in conjunction with the International Astronomical Union Commission B2 Working Group on the Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates (WG-P...

The Trump administration issued a final rule in July that gives it discretion to cut short the course of study of most international students at US universities. It will likely use this new power to b...

- NSF confirms new grants approach - Universities review Chinese ties - House Republicans look into biosecurity

His moody portrait became the album cover for “Kind of Blue.” Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”

A new brief by a prominent scholar argues that some criticisms of the University of California’s test-free policy are predicated on assertions that simply aren’t true.