There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

In the face of an incredibly snowy winter, we asked five writers, editors, and booksellers across the state about the books that they can’t stop talking about. Telling stories of wild leverets, serial ...

President Donald Trump was photographed at a ceremony with discolored skin on his neck. Is it a shingles rash? The doctor said it is due to a cream.

The recent case of Ibrahim George Kallon, an illegal alien charged with multiple serious offenses while training to become a corrections officer in a Pennsylvania sanctuary county, underscores the ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Missouri isn’t exactly known for looking like the surface of an alien planet, but apparently nobody told Meramec Caverns in Sullivan about that. This underground wonderland looks like something a ...

The proposed federal bill aims to bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, but opponents note ...

Perhaps Ridley Scott's greatest impact on the landscape of cinema has been on sci-fi, with his genre-defining masterpieces ...

The Democrats showed their true colors at Tuesday evening’s State of the Union when they failed the president’s test of allegiance to this country.

Five bills requiring the state to use the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, or SAVE, now head to the Iowa House for consideration.