Was the famous story of the Great Fire of Alexandria just a myth? Did Christians really burn the Library or is the truth more ...

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Yala Greek Ice Cream. 3143 N St., NW. For Chrys Kefalas, the Greek isle of Rhodes tastes like tangy ice cream swirled with tart wild cherries. The vanilla and Greek yogurt base reminds him of his ...

Scindian rulers, who ruled Gwalior state, played an important role in Indo-Greek heritage preservation in India.

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still important.

Over the next few days, astronomers will pull together evidence to determine whether the object is a comet.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between by ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.

About 1,500 people, many of them tourists, were evacuated from hotels and homes on the Greek island of Crete on Thursday as firefighters struggled to control a wildfire in arid conditions.

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope got the first photographic evidence of a white dwarf that detonated twice in a supernova.

Microsoft is planning to lay off 9,000 employees, impacting less than 4% of its global workforce, according to a report by CNBC.