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Gigantic dust towers on Mars that were produced during global storms could play a unique role on the planet, according to NASA.

An ancient outbreak of bubonic plague that's been said to have upended the world order was actually pretty tame, researchers say.

A popular beach in India has been knee-deep in frothy, toxic foam for the last few days.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a pair of galaxies, collectively known as Arp 293, having come so close together that they share cosmic material. 

A catastrophic asteroid impact big enough to wipe out humanity is only a matter of time, according to one top scientist.

YAKUTSK, Russia (AP) — Russian scientists on Monday showed off a prehistoric puppy, believed to be 18,000 years old, found in permafrost in the country’s Far East.

An eagle-eyed amateur sleuth has helped NASA locate the debris of India's Vikram lander, which crashed into the Moon in September.

The European Space Agency has received approval to aid NASA in its asteroid deflection plan, the upcoming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. 

Video of an unfortunate polar bear in Russia spray-painted with “T-34,” the name of a famous World War II Russian tank, has sparked outrage from wildlife experts.

Baby porpoises in the U.K. are being poisoned by what's described as a "cocktail of chemicals" stemming from pollutants in their mother's milk.

Nearly 600 million years ago, a massive ice age radically altered the planet's climate, resulting in a "Snowball Earth." Now, researchers believe they have discovered how early animals on this planet survived — and thrived — during the colossal event.

In the game of chess, a rook can move as many spaces as it can in one direction. Or, it can sit stone-still and guard the pieces around it, potentially holding its ground for an entire match — or thousands of years (whichever comes first).

A facial deformity known as the "Hapsburg jaw," seen in the Hapsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian royals, can be attributed to inbreeding.

Thanks to high-tech photography, researchers can now see previously hidden tattoos on ancient Egyptian mummies.

A surprising culprit has been fingered for very high mercury levels found in mountain lions living near the California coast -- marine fog.

A mysterious shipwreck has been uncovered thanks to a Lake Michigan storm surge.

A sperm whale that stranded and died on the shores of an island in Scotland “exploded” when the mammal was opened up for a necropsy. But what researchers found inside was even more surprising: a 220-pound ball of trash inside its stomach.

Sharks have only a few predators in the ocean, but a new study has found that they resistant to infection — thanks to germs.

Scientists have looked at various methods to save endangered coral reefs for years, looking at everything from growing them in labs to making them pollution resistant. A new study suggests that sounds from healthy reefs could also play a role in saving them.

Dinosaurs may have gone extinct 65 million years ago thanks to a massive asteroid impact, but one of the last species on the planet had something in common with one of today's most fearsome creatures — sharks.