A search for shipping containers that fell off a merchant ship during a storm earlier this year led to the discovery of a historic 16th-century shipwreck.
NASA is sending two of its robotic "astrobees," a cube-shaped flying robot that will help take care of routine tasks and participate in experiments, to the International Space Station later this month.
A Russian cargo ship lifted off from a Kazakhstan air base Thursday and is set to dock at the International Space Station to deliver more than 3.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the six astronauts living on the floating space lab.
Researchers have unearthed a new discovery at the ruins in Pompeii, an ancient eatery known as a thermopolium, akin to a modern-day snack bar, where patrons could get drinks and hot food.
A violent conflict between English colonists and Native Americans almost 400 years ago grew into a war that ended with the near extermination of an entire Indian tribe.
Six Neanderthals who lived in what is now France were eaten by their fellow Neanderthals some 100,000 years ago, according to gruesome evidence of the cannibalistic event discovered by scientists in a cave in the 1990s.
The clock is ticking for Pennsylvania lawmakers, who must decide whether to support House Bill 11, a $500 million annual commitment to rescue the state’s struggling nuclear industry over the next six years.
While digging a giant hole in the ground for a luxury residential building in Philadelphia, construction workers noticed something odd: Human bones kept turning up in the soil.
A photographer from India has captured several incredible images of the Malabar giant squirrel that have gone viral after being posted to social media.