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The wildfires raging across California are a sight to behold from 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.

Just a few months after launching the Cold Atom Lab, designed to create the coldest spot in the known universe, 10 billion times colder than the depths of space, NASA has achieved its goal.

Albert Fernandez has been fishing the waters of Florida his entire life, but the once crystal-clear water he remembers has turned a brownish-red the past few months because of a toxic algae polluting the water.

A years-long plan masterminded by a college dropout to help rid the Pacific Ocean of a Texas-sized island of garbage will kick off in a month.

A new invasive tick species described as an “aggressive biter” has been found in a number of U.S. states, sparking concern from agriculture and health officials.

A new invasive tick species described as an “aggressive biter” has been found in a number of U.S. states, sparking concern from agriculture and health officials.

Greg Skomal, a marine fisheries biologist at Martha's Vineyard Research Station, recently experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event when a shark leapt out of the water with its jaws wide open, inches from his arm.

Scientists have observed “extraordinary” waves coming out of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.

A gigantic, green-tinged comet is currently smashing its way through the night sky, leading some people to dub it the "Incredible Hulk comet." Tomorrow (Aug. 7), the celestial object will make its closest approach to Earth, according to Sky and Telescope magazine. This is likely the first time the comet has ever come into the inner solar system.

Scientists believe we could soon cross a climate threshold leading to extreme heat and catastrophic, rising seas in the decades and centuries to come.

An amateur historian just unearthed a treasure that would turn any archaeologist green with envy: an ornate gold ring dating back to ancient Roman times.

Next time you eat a blueberry (or chocolate chip) muffin consider what happened to the blueberries in the batter as it was baked. The blueberries started off all squished together, but as the muffin expanded they started to move away from each other. If you could sit on one blueberry you would see all the others moving away from you, but the same would be true for any blueberry you chose. In this sense galaxies are a lot like blueberries.

In 1966 over 300 children and staff from a Melbourne school reportedly witnessed multiple UFOs silently flying through the sky before landing in a nearby field.

The best meteor shower this year is here: The Perseids peak this weekend, promising dazzling views for skywatchers in dark areas.

What is puzzling scientists is not the radio burst itself, but that the frequency is nearly 200 MHz lower than any other radio burst ever detected.

NASA has cooled a cloud of rubidium atoms to ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero, producing the fifth, exotic state of matter in space. The experiment also now holds the record for the coldest object we know of in space, though it isn't yet the coldest thing humanity has ever created. (That record still belongs to a laboratory at MIT.)

A boa constrictor wrapped itself around what many believed to be a dead pigeon and began to eat the bird in the middle of a busy sidewalk in London Saturday morning as a crowd gathered around it.

An extremely rare medieval Bible has been re-discovered and returned to the cathedral it was taken from 500 years ago.

An extremely rare robust clubhook squid washed up on an Oregon beach in late July, giving scientists a unique opportunity to study the mysterious deep sea creatures.

If you want to see what the world's most famous diamonds looked like as babies, you'll have to rewind history by about a billion years.