Lava shooting out of the ground after last week's eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has now destroyed at least five homes, authorities said, and some of the more than 1,700 people who evacuated say they doubt they'll be able to return to their residences anytime soon.
NASA launched its InSight spacecraft bound for Mars on Saturday morning from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking the first interplanetary mission ever to depart from the West Coast.
Many of the hundreds who've fled their homes following this week's eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano -- and a subsequent series of earthquakes, including a magnitude-6.9 temblor Friday -- have described a harrowing and surreal experience.
Mice, roaches, and spiders: these are a few of the critters that a homeowner will occasionally come across. But a much bigger animal wandered into one Floridian’s garage on Wednesday -- an alligator.
Red molten lava continued to spurt into the sky Friday morning hours after Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted, forcing officials to issue widespread evacuation orders to more than 1,500 residents.
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which has been missing for more than four years, has led to the discovery of two 19th-century shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean.
New York City goes by many nicknames: the Big Apple, Gotham, Empire City and the City That Never Sleeps, to name a few. But one corner of the city's Long Island Sound has a more gruesome moniker: the Island of the Dead.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, releasing red lava into a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for thousands of people in nearby homes.