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An unusual animal has made its home in New York’s Central Park, dazzling passersby with its vibrant blues, purples, greens and gold: a Mandarin duck. This creature is far from its homeland —- it’s native to East Asia — and its presence is both baffling and exciting enthusiasts.

Scientists have identified the corpse of a galaxy that fell into the Milky Way about 10 billion years ago in what was likely the last major overhaul to our home galaxy during its development.

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted what officials from NASA and the European Space Agency have dubbed "a cosmic Bat Shadow" in a distant gas cloud, the Serpens Nebula.

Archaeologists may have solved one of the greatest mysteries of modern times – they believe they may have discovered how the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed, 4,500 years ago.

There's something odd about our solar system.

For an octopus mom, the miracle of life is bittersweet.

A researcher at Vanderbilt University may have found out how American cockroaches can avoid their own “zombie apocalypse.”

A Virginia woman was quick to snap a photo of a cottonmouth snake, which flashed its sharp fangs as a group of hikers at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge crossed its path over the weekend. 

Steel City received a strong message of support during the latest episode of “This Is Us.”

In a rare sighting, a couple from northern Ontario, in Canada, spotted two white moose crossing a highway.

On this day (Oct. 30) 80 years ago, actor Orson Welles announced to audiences in a chilling radio performance that Martians were invading New Jersey, leading terrified listeners to believe that Earth was under attack by hostile aliens.

After years spent sitting in private collections, a "phantom" fossil of one of the world's first known birds has finally seen the light of day.

Perfectly timed for Halloween, NASA is showing off a remarkable image of a ‘ghost nebula’ captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The most prolific planet-hunting machine in history has signed off.

A hoaxer has revealed how he faked an “alien autopsy” using animal organs and pig brains – and managed to fool the world for over a decade.

It's not a horror book, but the latest Living Planet report makes for some seriously frightening reading.

Astronomers have observed a stunning, supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that's pulling gas blobs into its vortex at 30 percent of the speed of light. 

World Wildlife Fund released an alarming report Tuesday asserting that humans are directly responsible for killing off an average of 60 percent of the world’s mammals, fish, birds and reptiles — in just over 40 years.

Hawaii's Supreme Court upheld a decision to grant a construction permit for an embattled, international giant telescope project planned for a mountain Native Hawaiians consider sacred.

A huge group of brooding octopus "moms" were spotted hovering over their eggs roughly 2 miles below the ocean's surface off the coast of California in mid-October.