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A rare powder horn that belonged to an African American soldier killed in the Revolutionary War has gone on display in Philadelphia.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed new photos of Uranus, which displayed a mysterious white orb covering a large portion of the ice giant.

Freezing rain this week caused an icy spectacle to form at an orchid in Kent County, Michigan: so-called “ghost apples.”

One of the first Japanese battleship to be sunk by U.S. forces during World War II has been discovered in the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen.

A 52-million-year fossil of a "perching bird" has been found in Wyoming with its feathers still attached, a discovery that "no one's ever seen before."

NASA has released an image that pinpoints the location of Chang’e 4, the Chinese spacecraft which made the unprecedented achievement earlier this year of landing on the “dark side” of the moon.  

The sort of small, young, active stars that have become most exciting to astronomers looking for exoplanets may actually push away precisely what could be necessary to carry water to those planets — leaving them too dry to support life.

An Australian woman was pouring herself a steaming cup of tea when she saw two beady eyes peering out of the drain in her kitchen sink.

Workers digging a sewer in the Danish city of Aalborg have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved sword that dates back to at least the 14th century.

A massive hole two-thirds the size of Manhattan is growing at the bottom of an Antarctic glacier and has NASA scientists disturbed about the potential for rapid melting and decay. 

An autographed copy of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," described as the "rarest ever," is set to go up for auction later this month.

According to a new study, researchers have found that the buzzing insects are able to understand simple addition and subtraction, at levels that would give the average 4-year old difficulty.

One year ago today (Feb. 6), a spacesuit-clad mannequin named Starman blasted into orbit aboard a cherry-red Tesla roadster he borrowed from his buddy, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

Humanity's meat eating habits are killing off Earth's biggest animals at an alarming rate.

Thousands of maggots were recently observed feasting on pizza, demolishing the entire pie in just two hours — an impressive accomplishment for the black soldier fly larvae.

Sunscreens that contain two specific chemicals will no longer be sold in Key West, Florida, as scientists have said they likely contribute to what is known as coral reef “bleaching."

Turkey officials found an ancient Bible believed to be 1,200 years old in a dramatic operation that was caught on camera.

A new species discovered deep in a cave in Canada may simply be a previously unknown insect. Or it could be something much bigger – a survivor from the last Ice Age, which ended thousands of years ago.

A group of researchers is calling for the retraction of more than 400 scientific papers after a first-of-its-kind study that claims countless human organs were unethically harvested from prisoners in China.

Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving away from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia, according to scientists.