A 1-year-old Abilene, Texas boy was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after his was bitten by a baby rattlesnake that was hiding in his toys outside his home.
An international team of astronomers has identified traces of metals and possible signs of water in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found, according to a new study.
The summit crater of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano has grown dramatically since the latest eruption began in early May, so large it may threaten a museum at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Researchers have made a shocking discovery under the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, locating an active volcanic heat source, a factor they say has played a "critical role" in the movement and melting of the glacier.
Investigators in Hawaii are working to determine how nearly 100 baby hammerhead sharks died after they were found dumped Tuesday morning near a lagoon outside Honolulu.
Brothers Robbie and Stephen Keszey, who starred in the 2011 reality TV show "Swamp Brothers" on the Discovery Channel, are begging fans to keep an eye out for a rare white alligator they believe was stolen during a suspected arson attack on their Florida reptile sanctuary.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The former business manager for Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said Tuesday she's being unfairly defamed in a lawsuit accusing her along with two of his children of misusing his credit cards and slandering him.
A funnel-like cloud filled the sky in Tennessee as a thunderstorm in the area came to a halt. Residents were stunned by the mysterious cloud formation, which some compared to a UFO.
Scientists already knew that the lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth were on a frozen ice ridge in eastern Antarctica, near the South Pole. But they recently discovered that temperatures there can drop even lower than those previously measured.
Just in time for the Fourth of July, an extremely rare printed copy of the Declaration of Independence has gone on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-size versions of the cavemen's brains.