On January 2, 1860, French astronomer Urbain (often spelled Urban) Le Verrier announced what he believed to be the discovery of a new planet orbiting closer to the Sun than Mercury. He named it Vulcan ...

Bat-Men On The Moon! One August morning in 1835, readers of the New York Sun were astonished to learn that the Moon was inhabited. Three-quarters of the newspaper's front page was devoted to the story ...

Presented for the first time in popular form is the fascinating true story of the search for the phantom planet Vulcan. As with legends of "the lost continent of Atlantis," scientists and dreamers ...

National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the ...