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Shark attacks across the globe have doubled in the last 20 years. However, the rate of attack is still low and the likeliness of someone getting attacked depends on where they are, researchers said.

Archaeologists have discovered the estate of a wealthy ancient Samaritan at Zur Natan in central Israel.

A bacterial infection has killed off ducks and geese in Denver, officials with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) announced Thursday.

Toxic byproducts of Agent Orange are polluting the environment in Vietnam, including its food supply, 50 years later.

The growing shark population off the coast of Massachusetts has one researcher losing sleep

For years now, California has been bracing for the "big one" — the magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake that is expected to send ripples through the state within the century.

A mysterious underground vault has been discovered on the grounds of the Nova Scotia Legislature in Canada.

An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England offers a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification.

Tucked away inside Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander – currently on its way to the Moon – is a massive archive documenting humanity’s achievements.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The events that led to the demise of the ancient Cambodian megacity of Angkor have been shrouded in mystery for centuries. However, new research argues that the city’s fall may have been a gradual process as opposed to a single catastrophic event.

An alligator in Florida recently put a new spin on the meaning of a hole-in-one.

Unusual bare circles in the grasslands of Australia and the Namib Desert called "fairy circles" aren't the work of termites, new research suggests.

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos dreams of creating a new space race of humans across our solar system – with a population of one trillion.

A mysterious "dark energy event" billions of years ago may have sped up the universe – and could rewrite history as we know it.

A new NASA study has recreated the origins of life, building the ocean's floors from 4 billion years ago as humanity attempts to understand how life started on Earth and where else it might be found.

It may look like cells under a microscope, but what you're looking at is a sky map of hundreds of thousands of previously undetected galaxies, some of which have black holes that "never stop eating."

It may look like cells under a microscope, but what you're looking at is a sky map of hundreds of thousands of previously undetected galaxies, some of which have black holes that "never stop eating."

A tiny marsupial relative that lived in the twilight of the dinosaurs, as well as in literal twilight for much of the year, has been discovered in the Arctic.