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If sometimes you wonder if your dog is angry with you for staying out late, you might be right. New evidence suggests that animals have a clear sense of time, using previously undiscovered neurons that seem to switch on to count off minutes as they wait.

Nothing is important. We’re almost sure it’s there. But we don’t know what it is. But this nothing could control the fate of the universe. And there may even be entire solar systems made of it.

In a rare and exciting spotting, a cougar was captured on a Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game camera this month, officials announced Thursday.

Potentially bad news for anyone looking to go on vacation to Alaska, Hawaii, Washington or California: The U.S. government has updated its list of the most dangerous volcanoes in the country and these states have more than their fair share of representation.

A man in the U.K. managed to capture photos and video of a lifetime, getting the exact moment when a meteor exploded and then disintegrated above a castle.

We all "knead" more space photos in our lives, so here's a stunning one from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of a region of the Milky Way that scientists call the Cat's Paw Nebula .

An extremely rare $1,000 bill described as the “Holy Grail of paper money” has been sold at auction for just over $2 million.

The collision of black holes harboring millions or billions of times the mass of the sun are likely common throughout the universe, a new study suggests.

Researchers may have gotten one step closer to figuring out the mysterious nature of an asteroid dubbed 3200 Phaethon.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore clarified Monday what the odd, plastic-looking objects some North Carolina beachgoers may have noticed really are.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore clarified Monday what the odd, plastic-looking objects some North Carolina beachgoers may have noticed really are.

A Philadelphia newspaper that predates the Revolutionary War and features the iconic “Unite or Die” snake in its masthead was discovered recently at a Goodwill processing center in New Jersey.

Ancient tools that can give historians a glimpse into America's history were recently discovered just feet below the surface in Texas.

Although Mars' atmosphere is comprised of vastly different elements than Earth's and is approximately 100 times less dense than our own, the planet does have clouds. But one strange, curious cloud over near a massive volcano is puzzling onlookers and even inciting conspiracy theories about what may be hiding below.

Marine biologists studying Hawaii's coral reefs discovered two rust orange-colored critters floating on plastic debris.

Government scientists are classifying 18 U.S. volcanoes as a "very high threat" because of what's been happening inside them and how close they are to people.

An increase in the fruit fly population in at least one Virginia county has caused an issue for homeowners.

After years of research, Egyptian authorities believe they finally have a clearer picture of who this now 3,000-year-old person was.

The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation upon southern Mexico, caused 98 deaths, more than 300 injuries and affected over 1.5 million people was even more extreme than initially thought – it split the tectonic plate responsible for the quake in half.

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered the undisturbed skeletons of a small group of people who took shelter from the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.