Some of our best-known stories and best-loved authors are responsible for giving us hundreds of new additions to our vocabulary over the years. Shakespeare is popularly said to have coined hundreds of ...

Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus is now halfway between its eastern and western elongations. Heading toward the latter, which it will reach in just a few weeks, the moon sits 1.9’ due north of Saturn ...

On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock and ice and is covered in craters. Rhea is also the only moon discovered to ...

Depiction of Uranus on the Pergamon Altar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0 The Bible’s story of Noah firmly associates him with rain. In fact, the Bible first mentions rain in connection with ...

In 1669, French-Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini arrived at the still-under-construction Paris Observatory as its new director. He quickly talked Louis XIV’s minister of finance into buying a ...

The story of Prometheus is one of the most curious of Greek mythology. Over the centuries it has been enriched by poets and philosophers, and these days Prometheus personifies intelligence, even ...

From Apollo to Zeus, the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses are the most powerful deities in the pantheon of ancient Greek mythology and religion. The Greek gods — and the Roman gods they inspired — ...

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, and the second-largest moon in our solar system. Interestingly amongst the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a thick atmosphere.

Atlas was one of the Titans in Greek mythology, son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. After the war against the Olympian gods, Zeus condemned him to hold up the vault of ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.