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A rare female northern right whale dolphin washed up on an Oregon beach last week, leaving experts guessing as to how the creature, seen only four times on the coastline in the last 20 years, died.

An angler wrestled with a 324-pound porbeagle shark off the coast of Milford Haven in Wales this week, bringing the "beast" briefly aboard a charter boat before tossing it back into the water.

A lion head gold ring worn by Elvis Presley at Graceland in 1972 is up for auction in the U.K. this weekend.

An original Society of the Cincinnati gold eagle medal, deemed one of the "most important objects from the nation’s founding" is set to go on display at Fort Ticonderoga in New York.

After weeks of spewing ash and lava, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is now shooting green crystals into the air.

A Christopher Columbus letter that was stolen from the Vatican Library has been returned thanks to the efforts of U.S. and Vatican investigators.

Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tons of ice in the past 25 years, and that ice loss has accelerated rapidly over the last five years.

Beachgoers in Texas got quite a surprise on Sunday when a massive blue marlin washed up on shore.

Scientists are following a trail of interstellar dust all the way back to the formation of the solar system.

It's been about six months since a pair of cloned female macaques were brought into this world by a team of Chinese scientists.

Nowadays, most humans leaving Earth must do so through Russian territory.

Three exoplanets are in the process of being born around a young star that's not too far from the sun, two new studies report.

Laura Cicco received a vial of moon dust from famed Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong nearly 50 years ago. Now the Tennessee woman is suing NASA -- as a preemptive move to ensure that the space agency can’t take the gift away from her.

More than 1,000 beachgoers in Florida have been treated for jellyfish stings since Saturday, Volusia County Beach Safety officials said.

NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars did not return a call from Earth Tuesday (June 12) while enduring a massive dust storm that scientists have called "one of the most intense ever observed."

Researchers taking a survey of some of the world's oldest and funkiest trees have bad news to report: Africa's legendary baobabs are dying.

Giant viruses may invent genes and proteins found nowhere else on Earth, new research suggests.

Giant viruses may invent genes and proteins found nowhere else on Earth, new research suggests.

An extremely rare woolly mammoth bone has been found on a beach in Scotland.

The tale of Hawaii's recent volcanic eruptions continues to change, much like its fierce lava flows, and new images from space tell the latest chapter.