In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story that ...

Henrietta, left, and Eliza Huszti went missing on 7 January The body of a second woman has been found near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti - both ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had many pols, pundits, and news media swooning or, in some cases, in need of the Heimlich maneuver during her first news briefing for the Trump White ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is aiming to prevent her boss from falling into the same trap as Biden, whose early presidency was infamously remembered as an expensive era for eggs ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made the bombshell announcement that Trump intended to launch a $1.6 trillion war with America's biggest trading partners in an effort to boost ...

Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, will return to the podium Friday afternoon. Perino was Republican President George W. Bush's fourth press secretary - the second ...

Newsmax correspondent James Rosen pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday about President Donald Trump’s profanity after the D.C. airplane crash. On Thursday afternoon ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32 and part of a set of triplets, were reported missing by their landlady on 7 January after telling her they ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed questions on Friday about whether 25% tariffs coming in a matter of hours will drive consumer costs up. Leavitt confirmed during a Friday ...