The world's second space tourist returned to earth safely early yesterday morning, his 10-day trip to the International Space Station ending in a huge cloud of dust as he touched down on the steppes ...

South End businesspeople are fundraising for and seeking a wall for a mural by Vermont artists. The proposed artwork, a large, colorful painting in an Afrofuturist style by Will Kasso Condry and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Mandla Maseko—a South African man who became a national hero after winning the chance to become the first black African in space—has been killed in a motorbike crash before he could embark on his ...

Mandla Maseko, a South African man who had won the opportunity to become the first black African to go into space, has died in a motorcycle crash. He was 30. Mr. Maseko was killed in Pretoria over the ...

South Africans are mourning the death of Mandla Maseko, who placed as one of the winners of a year-long gruelling competition put on by the AXE Apollo Academy in Florida, USA, would have been the ...

Lil Wayne's not the same as us, he is a martian. And he's far from the only African American artist with a fixation for the cosmic. Slate calls him the latest of an "Afronaut invasion" in a piece ...

Mandla Maseko, a DJ who won the chance to be the first black African in space, has died in a motorbike accident A South African man who won the chance to be the first black African in space has died ...