The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 on this site brought congressional attention to miners’ labor rights in Colorado. Denver Public Library On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were ...

In the early 1910s, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey was surveying the world from his office in Whitehall. He saw many minor wars, but nothing that would pit the great powers at the time against ...

The takeaway: An international team of astronomers has published a study on LHS 1903, a red dwarf star hosting a truly unusual planetary system. Unlike our solar system and many previously discovered ...

Like a double-stuffed Oreo of planetary proportions, the star LHS 1903 boasts two rocky exoplanets sandwiching two gaseous ones. From the star outward, the lineup — rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky — ...

Rocky planets are typically found near their star, while gas giants form farther out — not the other way around. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

A loaded Colt handgun believed to date back to 1903 was found inside the wall of a whiskey distillery in the south suburbs of Chicago, police said. The Thornton Police Department said their officers ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Many of those who could escape the fire ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...

The 1914 Christmas Truce wasn’t universal, and it didn’t last, but it’s become one of war’s most retold on-screen moments: carols over the wire, a cautious walk into no man’s land, and the hangover ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief moment of peace in the midst of war. December 1914. World War I had been ...

British and German soldiers in World War I during the Christmas Truce of 1914. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. It’s late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World ...