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If you visit Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, beware: Portuguese Man-O-Wars have been recently spotted, officials say.

The volcanic outburst on Hawaii's Big Island intensified early this week, and satellites have been keeping an eye on the dramatic geological activity.

The buyer of a painting reportedly stolen by Nazis wants some $800,000 from Christie's auction house, which he claims "didn't do enough work" to clear the provenance of Alfred Sisley's "First Day of Spring in Moret."

A small asteroid about the size of a boulder slammed into Earth's atmosphere Saturday (June 2), incinerating itself in a brilliant fireball caught on video.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently found something intriguing on Mars, and the space agency will unveil the discovery Thursday (June 7).

Two tiny NASA explorers have notched another spaceflight first.

Luke Skywalker's backstory may not be so fanciful after all.

Researchers have identified more than 100 giant exoplanets that may have potentially life-hosting moons

Two men are accused of swiping historical artifacts from a Royal Navy warship—the HMS Hermes—which sank in the Dover Strait at the beginning of WWI, The BBC reported Monday.

Two men are accused of swiping historical artifacts from a Royal Navy warship—the HMS Hermes—which sank in the Dover Strait at the beginning of WWI, The BBC reported Monday.

A rare two-headed snake is being raised by a New Orleans family after its discovery in a backyard.

An asteroid turned into a blazing fireball as it disintegrated over Southern Africa last weekend, just hours after it was first spotted.

The story of how the Titanic was found is widely known, but some of the most interesting details are only now emerging, reports USA Today.

A whale in Thailand that died Friday was discovered to have more than 80 plastic bags and other items in its stomach, according to researchers.

Read enough books on the body and you’ll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series. Take the chimera chapter in science writer Carl Zimmer’s sprawling new treatise on heritability, “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh” (Dutton) for example.

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all.

Hundreds of ancient stolen tablets, seized from the company Hobby Lobby and returned to Iraq, provide clues about what a lost 4,000-year-old city called Irisagrig was like.

A NASA spacecraft is about to get up close and personal with Ceres, a giant asteroid that also happens to be the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.

If you've ever looked up into the unfathomable night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" then you are not alone.

A misshapen galaxy shines in a newly released photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.