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NASA's InSight Mars Lander made history when it touched down on the Red Planet in late November — the eighth successful landing on Mars since 1976.

China has launched a ground-breaking mission to land an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the Moon.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a trove of rare gold coins and a 900-year-old gold earring at the site of a Crusader massacre.

Tonks, the aye-aye, was recently born at the Denver Zoo and while her appearance may be ghastly, it's a win for biologists trying to save the species.

A huge gopher tortoise that was recently admitted to a wildlife clinic in Florida may have broken the state record for size.

It was just a few months after NASA's Opportunity rover touched down on Mars in 2004 that it spotted a geological curiosity: tiny, iron-rich spheres scattered across the rock surface near the robot's landing site.

The largest extinction event in Earth's history was caused by global warming - and our planet may be in for another enormous wipeout, scientists warn.

NASA has released several new stunning pictures of Mars after the InSight lander used its robotic arm to snap a few photos of its new workspace.

A sinuous swamp salamander with spots like a leopard and Christmas-tree-shaped fronds growing from its head hid from scientists for decades.

A researcher has uncovered fascinating new details about the construction of ancient “pyramids” in China.

NASA is working on experiments to help aid with vision loss and wound healing aboard the International Space Station.

You never know what you'll find at a flea market … like a 4,000-year-old piece of pottery.

The first-ever vaccine for insects now exists, thanks to scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland hoping to save one of the most crucial pollinators in the world: the honey bee.

New York City, 1932 - at that point, the New York City subway has been around for a whopping 28 years. With 472 station stops, around 800 miles of track, and over 20 different subway lines, one might be shocked to hear that in 1932, the NYC subway system was attempting to label all 27 subway lines with only 3 colors. To even get close to understanding how NYC subways went from 3 colors to today’s 10, one would have to speak to a man named Peter Lloyd.

The fossil of a 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur from the Jurassic era has been discovered and it contains evidence of blubber and skin, making the creature more similar to modern-day dolphins than previously thought.

In the summer of 2017, after a freak rainfall, unusual lagoons appeared in the oldest and driest desert on Earth — the Atacama .

China is about to be the first nation to land on the dark side of the Moon. But Beijing is being unusually secretive about the event — not even confirming its suspected launch date this weekend.

As winter descends on the Northern Hemisphere like so many dinner guests upon a plate of latkes, it's a fine time to start dreaming of warmer climes.

Carbon dioxide emissions across the world made their largest jump in the past year, rising an estimated 2.7 percent, according to three studies released Wednesday.

A Hawaiian monk seal was spotted over the summer with an eel hanging out of its nose, a photo shared by the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program on Monday shows.