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If you suffer from triskaidekaphobia, the 13th of every month is certainly not your day.

Newly published research shows that hundreds of depressions on Mars' surface, aptly named "ghost dunes," could hold evidence of ancient life.

A solar eclipse is scheduled for Friday the 13th, but most skywatchers will be out of luck without doing a bit of traveling.

It's a quiet morning on Mars as I carefully walk on the dusty ground, watching my step so I don't trip on any of the rocks underfoot.

Beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa lies a massive liquid ocean — and one new animation shows how this subsurface water could move to the moon's surface.

New research showcasing the dramatic topography of Pluto and its moon Charon should help scientists better guess what forces have shaped them.

We can't exactly give EPT tests to sharks in the wild to find out if they're pregnant, but scientists think there may be another clue.

A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and — oddly enough — poisonous fern, a new study finds.

Scientists studying the body of Oetzi the Iceman — a hunter who died in the Alps 5,300 years ago — found that his last meal was particularly well-balanced.

A Texas man investigating a loud "clunk" coming from his chimney on Sunday was horrified to find a 6-foot snake staring back at him from behind the glass.

Researchers have uncovered a stunning mosaic depicting a biblical scene at the site of an ancient synagogue in Northern Israel.

After an ongoing battle with their landlord, a Brentwood, Tennessee woman who was recently treated for a brown recluse spider bite -and allegedly found dozens more in her apartment - said this week that she and her partner are moving out of the complex.

A huge star system 7,500 light-years away is shooting out radiation at superhigh speeds.

A man in Pulaski, New York awoke to an unsettling surprise late last month: a boa constrictor.

A rat plunged a performance of the ballet “Sleeping Beauty” into darkness after chewing through a power cable.

Two newfound species of bats recently discovered in Kenya are endearing, lemon-colored fuzzballs. But scientists aren't interested in these bats just for their flashy colors; the animals also provide important clues about some very tangled branches in the bat family tree.

Archeologists made a stunning discovery in Mexico Wednesday when they uncovered an ancient temple nestled inside an Aztec-era pyramid that was damaged during the 7.1-magnitude earthquake and devastated the region in September.

A 16th-century shipwreck that may be all that's left of one of the first European voyages to America holds treasures worth millions of dollars. But now a judge has ruled that the company that discovered the wreck off the coast of Florida has no right to salvage the valuable artifacts.

Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist.

One of the nearest exoplanets to Earth may be a decent abode for life.