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Archaeologists digging in a 400-year-old church in Jamestown, Virginia, have found a headless body that might be that of Sir George Yeardley, one of the first politicians — and slave owners — in the American colonies.

The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs on July 27 – this is what you need to know.

Wildlife officials are offering a hefty reward to anyone who can provide information about a pregnant bottlenose dolphin that was shot to death in southern Mississippi.

Archaeologists have found a burial site with 10 skeletons near Palermo, the capital of the Italian island Sicily.

If Shark Week has you wondering whether you should stay out of the water, a shark map from Oceana may be just what you need.

Filmmaker James Cameron and Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard are backing a bid by a group of British museums to acquire a collection of 5,500 artifacts from the sunken vessel.

One year ago, a massive iceberg the size of Delaware broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, triggering concerns about how the event could impact shipping routes and sea levels.

They're the stuff of news headlines, blockbuster movies and nightmares: shark attacks.

Step outside around 9:30 p.m. local daylight time on Tuesday (July 24), and in a single glance, you'll be able to drink in a "parade" of bright planets.

An Oregon woman recently came home to an unusual surprise: a mountain lion, which ended up taking a nap for six hours behind her sofa.

An extremely rare miniature Bible that traveled to the Moon on the Apollo 14 mission is up for auction.

While basketball player LeBron James' shoe size (15) is pretty big, it's nowhere near the considerable foot size of the dinosaur with the largest feet on record, a new study finds.

Blue sharks are known to prowl the Mediterranean sea, but they can also be found in British waters.

Although life does not presently exist on the Moon, new research suggests that there was a window in its past where it could have supported life.

If signs of life exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they might not be as hard to find as scientists had thought, a new study reports.

Skywatchers across a number of U.S. states that border Canada may get a glimpse of the northern lights thanks to a geomagnetic storm late Monday and early Tuesday.

The vast personal collection of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will be auctioned off later this year.

Extremely rare video footage captured in the Amazon shows the last surviving member of an uncontacted tribe that was massacred in 1995.

The Milky Way had a previously unknown big sibling that was torn apart by the neighboring Andromeda galaxy long ago, a new study suggests.

Where there's a will, there's a way?