You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday as Hurricane Lala, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, rolled past Hawaii's Big ...

The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes ...

South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the ...

Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives ...

Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day ...

The strongest glasses have an Achilles' heel that causes them to fail catastrophically when pushed past their limit. They do ...

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have spotted an extremely bright red spot in the early universe. The object resembles an ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

Hurricane Lala was pulling away from Hawaii's Big Island early Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds struck the U.S. Pacific ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system ...

Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...