New Mexico coach Richard Pitino knows who to ask for a good scouting report on the Marquette men's basketball team. There's no doubt that Pitino will be asking his father − legendary St. John's ...

A planned Chinese observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is facing possible cancellation after US officials in recent months have raised concerns about its potential military applications.

Ironically it was the very destroyer of Baghdad, Halaku Khan under whose auspices the Maragha Observatory was established in the Ilkhanate in today's North Western Iran. The story goes that the ...

The No. 7 Marquette Golden Eagles (23-10) face off against the No. 10 New Mexico Lobos (26-7) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, tipping off at 7:25 p.m. ET. The Golden Eagles ...

Marquette men's basketball fans who have to work Friday will be pleased to learn that the first-round NCAA tournament game between the Golden Eagles and New Mexico is scheduled for the evening ...

In Hill County, Emergency Management Coordinator Tom Hemrick and County Judge Justin Lewis have been working together since Monday to enact one of the shortest burn bans they have had in years ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Here's how to get tickets for Marquette's first-round game against New Mexico. This is Shaka Smart's fourth trip with Marquette to the NCAA ...

On the flanks of the largest active volcano on earth, the Mauna Loa Observatory tracks the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are warming the planet and has been doing so since 1958.

After falling in the quarterfinal round of the Big East tournament, to Villanova, there is no NCAA tournament bid for the Marquette women's basketball team this year, but postseason play for the ...

Cara Consuegra's first season with the Marquette women's basketball team is still going. The Golden Eagles (20-10) earned an invitation to the WBIT and will play at Drake (22-11) on Thursday in ...

A Fort Worth Independent School District baseball coach has turned himself in for allegedly having an improper relationship with a teen student in Hill County, authorities said Thursday.

No. 7 seed Marquette and No. 10 seed New Mexico play Friday, March 21 in a March Madness NCAA Tournament first-round game at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The South Region game is scheduled for ...