In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it ...

From the prehistoric poems of the Nile civilizations to contemporary poets changing the literary landscape, poetry encapsulates and immortalizes feelings and emotions. Do you gravitate toward ...

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Aimed at introducing children to a universe full of words, this 20x10 minute series is an interstellar journey to discover laugh out loud poems and rhymes. It's poetry but not as we know it!

Hot.) But might there be sci-fi movies that go against the galactic grain to be worth checking out, even for people that ...

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. Produced by Sara Curtis Edited by Wendy Dorr Featuring Elisabeth Egan ...

In the 2014 film Interstellar, humanity takes advantage of a wormhole near Saturn to travel to different galaxies in minutes while searching for a new, habitable planet. Similarly, a network of ...

Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster issues making it difficult for the spacecraft to stay pointed at Earth when calling home.

The allowable wavelengths for interstellar quantum communications. For a given distance away (left vertical axis), quantum communications are impossible where the horizontal distance line passes ...

Story: Two star-crossed lovers from warring galactic factions find solace in each other amidst a backdrop of interstellar ...