Although the original image was dubbed the Pillars of Creation, the new image hints that they are also pillars of destruction. “I’m impressed by how transitory these structures are..."

...We talked about the process of making records; I gushed blearily about the impressive workmanship I had seen that day at the plant.

“It’s all worth it,” Teichmann said simply. “It just sounds better, doesn’t it?”...

Our cartoonists react to the January 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France...

There are about 100 routes up El Capitan, first summited from the valley floor in 1958. But these dots, climbers named Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, were trying something that had never been done...

This is Khaled Ahmed. He lives with his wife and two kids in Lexington, Kentucky. He's a recording artist. Like me, he's an American citizen...

The calendar on the wall reads November 2011. On the ground is a half-filled tin of Copenhagen smokeless tobacco. Scattered here and there are bottles of Gatorade...

In his State of the Union address 50 years ago, LBJ laid out his vision for the Great Society. In an excerpt from his new book on the 1960s, historian Julian Zelizer highlights the forgotten role Congress played in getting it done. Read a Q&A between the author and Scott Porch...

Expert advice about how to drive safely among North America's most dangerous animals...

Our sense of comedy and seriousness in Huck Finn says more about America now than America in Mark Twain's time...

Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo dies at 82...