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Sharon Moore had heard the stories about her father getting his duffel bag stolen on his way back from the Korean War. The New Hampshire woman never expected to see any of the contents.

Hurricanes are categorized using what’s known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

As Hurricane Lane continues to churn toward Hawaii packing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, scientists gathering data on the storm provided a dramatic glimpse from inside on Tuesday.

A devastating volcanic eruption on the other side of world contributed to Napoleon’s defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, scientists say. Fascinating new research released Wednesday makes a remarkable link between to two events.

Hurricane warnings and watches have slightly different meanings concerning hurricane conditions.

The world’s largest container line is about to embark on a trip through the cold Arctic to test a faster shipping method that could become viable as warmer temperatures melt open the Northern Sea Route.

A new study suggests that species who use more energy on a daily basis are at a greater risk of becoming extinct than those that are more sedentary.

A Senate subcommittee asked for reasons to support sending humans to Mars, and, boy, did they get one from Ellen Stofan, NASA's former chief scientist.

We are not living in the first universe. There were other universes, in other eons, before ours, a group of physicists has said. Like ours, these universes were full of black holes. And we can detect traces of those long-dead black holes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — the radioactive remnant of our universe's violent birth.

A new study of previous reversals of Earth’s magnetic field has found a rapid shift occurred within two centuries — a discovery that has prompted researchers to warn of a potential dire scenario.

Scientists have found hundreds of galaxies hiding in plain sight, cloaked by the light emitted from an extremely active supermassive black hole.

A large swath of earthquakes hit the Pacific's "Ring of Fire" earlier this week, prompting some to wonder if it is a precursor to the pending earthquake, colloquially known as "the Big One."

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold caught a spectacular view of Typhoon Soulik swirling toward southern Japan from his post on the International Space Station.

NASA's Orion spacecraft — which will eventually carry humans to locations beyond low Earth orbit, such as the moon — just got its heat shield for a test mission that will take place in 2019 or 2020.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious ancient ‘cursed’ black granite sarcophagus.

Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient cemetery in Kenya that sheds new light on the area’s early culture.

Over a period of less than three weeks, more than 100 endangered sea turtles washed up dead on an 18-mile (30 kilometers) stretch of beach on the Pacific coast of Mexico near Guatemala, and authorities aren't sure why.

Late at night on July 25, 2016, a thin river of purple light slashed through the skies of northern Canada in an arc that seemed to stretch hundreds of miles into space. It was a magnificent, mysterious, borderline-miraculous sight, and the group of citizen skywatchers who witnessed it decided to give the phenomenon a fittingly majestic name: "Steve."

Don't worry: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity isn't falling apart.

The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has begun to break up, opening waters that are normally frozen, researchers say.