From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

(RNS) — I didn’t think much about Charlie Kirk during the first decade or so of his career, but when I did I was sure I didn’t like him. I understood his campus organization, Turning Point USA, to the ...

Wonder why your neighbor is hanging gourds up? Or why there appears to be an undulating donut on the weather radar? The answer to both is the purple martin. The largest swallow in North America, male ...

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Lockheed Martin is expanding its missile assembly campus on a former World War II U.S. Army Air Corps site in north Alabama. Lockheed-Martin Next Generation Interceptor and Space Vice President Sarah ...

When the planets tried to flex on galaxies, the Sun stepped in with a scorching reality check: "You’re all just dust motes in my spotlight! "Turns out, size doesn’t matter when you’re the original ...

You've heard of a supermassive black hole. Now, what about an "ultramassive" black hole? That descriptor is the only word researchers could use befitting a black hole recently spotted lurking far from ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole lies at the center of a ...

A once-common bird species has found a new home in the Lehigh Valley, establishing a thriving colony at St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township. Purple martins, which migrate ...

In this instance, two enormous black holes – 100 and 140 times the mass of Earth's sun – collided. The result? A black hole the size of a whopping 240 suns. Black holes this massive shouldn't be ...

Sometime in their cosmic lives, two gigantic black holes crashed into one another to form something even more monstrous: A black hole equal to the size of 240 of Earth's sun. Now, thanks to an ...

Scientists detected the merger of two extremely massive black holes. This merger created the most massive black hole ever observed through gravitational waves. The black holes' size and rapid spin ...