People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could ...

As the Avalanche start their break for the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament, Adam Proteau is handing out grades for each key ...

A 719 staple In her 37 years as a Prior Lake-Savage Area School District employee, Char Voigt has worked in five different buildings (including one that no longer exists). Here’s a list of ...

Additional charges have been issued against former Jordan High School teacher James Simon, 58, who served five years in prison after being convicted of four counts of criminal sexual conduct in ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky ... star attains a stunning maximum brilliance of magnitude -4.9 on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14). At a really dark site, can ...

However, due to its size, Mercury also is the fastest planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun every 88 Earth days. Mercury formed about 4.5 billion years ago from swirling gas and dust.

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

To tackle this puzzle, Malhotra and colleagues considered a less-examined scenario: that a visiting star-size object tweaked these planets' paths around 4 billion years ago. Using computer models ...