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A stunning new study from NASA highlights the impact humans are having on fresh water availability across the globe, mentioning climate change and several other factors.

A man in Cheatham County, Tennessee caught and later killed a 6.5 foot timber rattlesnake that slithered through his backyard.

New research reveals that some black hole collisions may cascade, with the dense objects crashing into one another to create even more-massive black holes.

A new type of camera developed by U.S. researchers will allow astronomers to directly image planets around nearby stars in the search for another Earth.

Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power.

The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city.

The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city.

In space, they say, no one can hear you sneeze. But Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was doing a lot of that inside the Challenger command module when he visited the moon in 1972.

Elon Musk’s wants to use the biggest rocket SpaceX has ever built to ferry humans around the globe, promising passengers the ability to get anywhere on Earth in under an hour.

Earth-like planets with severe tilts and orbits could enter abrupt "snowball states," in which entire oceans freeze and surface life cannot survive, according to new research.

The largest-ever parachute bound for Mars, which will land Europe's ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet in 2021, passed the first in a series of tests in Sweden.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Woolly mammoths have been extinct for more than 4,000 years, but with new gene-editing techniques, they could help mitigate the effects of a modern problem: climate change.

Six squirrels tied together at their tails were unknotted Monday by a Nebraska wildlife group after a man heard their screeching cries for help.

Researchers from North Carolina State University investigated chimpanzees’ treetop dwellings in Tanzania to see how the cleanliness of a human bed “compares with some of our closest evolutionary relatives” who “make their own beds daily,” a new study released Tuesday said.

A tiny satellite on its way to Mars has opened its eyes and captured a view of home.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has slowly been swallowing up homes, cars and other structures throughout the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens neighborhoods with its 2,000-degree lava since it erupted on May 3. The volcano's destruction has shocked the local community — and the nation as a whole — as it continues to spill fire and steam and threatens to explode, triggerind a "red" warning on May 15.

Experts in Israel have found the earliest evidence of ancient “blood vengeance” in a cave in the Jerusalem Hills.

Zoo Atlanta detailed the Monday afternoon incident involving 8-year-old Zuberi in a Facebook post.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For some lizards it's easy being green. It's in their blood. Six species of lizards in New Guinea bleed lime green thanks to evolution gone weird.

The powerful thunderstorms that that left a path of destruction and at least 3 dead across the Northeast on Tuesday were so strong they generated a small tsunami off the coast, according to forecasters.