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In late 2016, dozens of staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba fell sick after reportedly hearing mysterious noises in their hotels or homes.

Near the southern tip of South America, thousands of ladies — wives, mothers, anchovy enthusiasts — are vanishing from their nests.

NASA's newest planet-hunting probe has bagged another alien world, the eighth confirmed find for the young mission.

An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home.

A British retiree managed to capture a stunning image of a Long Tongue bat licking nectar from a flower while he was on vacation in Costa Rica.

Scientists have used 3-D technology to unlock the secrets of a prehistoric marine reptile’s skull.

The population of western monarch butterflies in California’s coastal areas is apparently taking a nosedive.

SpaceX could take its prototype Mars-colonizing spaceship out for a spin very soon.

When Amelia Earhart took off in 1937 to fly around the world, people had been flying airplanes for only about 35 years. When she tried to fly across the Pacific, she – and the world – knew it was risky. She didn't make it, and was declared dead in January 1939. In the 80 years since then, many other planes have been lost around the world and never found again – including the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, over the Indian Ocean.

A penny that a Massachusetts teenager found in his change from lunch money could be worth as much as $1.65 million (£1.3 million) when it is auctioned off.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an amazing image of the Triangulum Galaxy, which is 3 million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. The image is comprised of 665 million pixels and was created from 54 different images, a view in space so large that it spans "an area more than 19,000 light-years across."

Vikings who settled in Iceland more than 1,000 years ago valued their horses so much that the men were buried with their trusty steeds.

Jupiter was partially illuminated with a fiery red glow in late December as a volcano on the planet's Moon lo erupted.

Florida's famous alligator named "Chubbs" may have some competition.

Hummingbirds are known as strong, aggressive and have even been labeled as "angry" by some researchers, but a certain species of the bellicose birds have taken their anger to a new level – they've started to develop "weaponized" beaks used for fighting and not eati

Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago thanks to a massive asteroid that hit the Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, now known as the Chicxulub crater. While it's been generally accepted that the asteroid caused a massive disruption in the planet's climate, a new study says the asteroid also caused a worldwide tsunami that reached more than 5,000 feet in the air.

Nazi Germany's eradication of European Jews during the Holocaust, one of humanity's most despicable campaigns of violence, featured a much more ruthlessly efficient "kill rate" than previously understood — according to new research.

China's Chang'e-4 lander touched down on the far side of the moon (Jan.

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.