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The federal government is declaring the deaths of hundreds of seals off the New England coast this summer to be an "unusual mortality event."

Extremely rare letters from infamous World War I spy Mata Hari to her lover have been sold for $15,000 at a Los Angeles auction.

A giant lizard that’s terrorizing a Florida family has no intentions of being captured, as it has managed to evade state wildlife officials, trappers and hunting dogs for days.

The massive dust storm on Mars that caused NASA to lose contact with its Opportunity rover is dissipating, giving new hope that the $400 million space vehicle isn't lost after all.

A Samsung chief has revealed the company is spending billions of dollars on artificial intelligence, and hopes to convince you there’s nothing to fear.

Mercury has been devoid of spacecraft companions since NASA's Messenger mission ended in 2015, and while the next mission bound for the innermost planet launches later this year, it won't arrive until 2025.

Six months after NASA last picked up a signal from a long-lost spacecraft, engineers have been unable to re-establish communications with the satellite, the agency confirmed in a new statement released yesterday (Aug.

In a stunning scientific discovery, researchers have found water clouds inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot, raising the prospect that life may exist on the planet.

A man who was bitten by a suspected great white shark earlier this month at a Cape Cod beach said in his first interview on Tuesday he was able to escape after punching the predator in the gills

A hen in Hull, Texas was rather “clucky” when a massive snake decided to rest near the animal rather than make the chicken its next meal.

Homo sapiens' closest relatives, the Neanderthals, died off approximately 40,000 years ago, but the exact cause is still up for debate. Now, a new study suggests that climate change was a bigger part in their extinction than previously believed.

NASA and its Russian counterparts identified a tiny pressure leak on the International Space Station Wednesday, which may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.

In a shocking scientific development, an eleven-year old stingray has given birth to a healthy offspring, despite having had no male contact in over nine years.

There's a monster out there. It's far away, buried deep in the past. But scientists can see it. And thanks to a new international imaging project, they've begun to understand it, too.

A black bear struck by an arrow recently mauled a Southern California hunter who approached the wounded animal to get a closer look, a report said.

A North Carolina woman was expecting to find a package on her doorstep last week — instead, she found an unusual note from a UPS driver in her mailbox.

More than 300 vulnerable turtles have been found dead, entangled in illegal fishing nets off the Mexican coast.

NASA is launching a new project to help it better understand the deepest parts of space, without ever leaving Earth.

It sounds like something out of the "Alien" movie series, but wasps that lived during the age of dinosaurs laid eggs inside fly pupae, with the wasps eating the flies from the inside out.

Selfies. Whether you love them or you hate them, they’re constantly flooding our social media feeds.