Why do so many of today’s high-profile fans of “The Lord of the Rings” and other fantasy and sci-fi classics insist on turning these cautionary tales into aspirational road maps for ...

His masterful world-building made Middle-earth one of the first and best fantasy worlds ever created. Tolkien is so detailed about everything in his universe, including the map, and the landscape ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

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It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

One reason why Tolkien's world is so magical is because of the numerous ancient beings that shape the history of Middle-earth ...

He was effectively denouncing decades of American policy in the Middle East, playing to grievances long aired in cafes and sitting rooms from Morocco to Oman. “In the end, the so-called nation ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash back to Earth on Saturday after more than 50 years stuck in orbit. In the latest predictions, the Cold War-era spacecraft will ...

Alien: Earth premieres its first two episodes on August 12 on Hulu at 8pm ET, and on FX and Disney+ at 8pm PT / ET (August 13 in the UK and internationally on Disney+). New episodes of the eight ...

Trump in Doha: President Donald Trump is visiting Qatar, the second stop on his Middle East tour, where he received a lavish welcome and announced a deal for Qatar to purchase up to 210 jets from ...