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SpaceX is set to launch NASA's newest exoplanet-hunting spacecraft on Wednesday evening.

The New England Aquarium in Boston officially has a new addition: four newly hatched blue penguins.

A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the wreck of the USS Helena in the Pacific, almost 75 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes.

A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the wreck of the USS Helena in the Pacific, almost 75 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes.

A group of more than 100 octopus "moms" and their eggs were found clustered about 2 miles below the ocean's surface off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica by a group of scientists during a deep-sea expedition.

SpaceX is set to launch NASA's newest exoplanet-hunting spacecraft on Wednesday evening.

Claims that a green moon would be visible for the first time in 420 years on April 20 went viral on Facebook this week — and scientists are ready to set the record straight.

A bridge that used to be the cause of headaches for commuters in the New York region will soon have a new life to help foster marine life.

New analysis of a meteorite fragment from Sudan has found space diamonds, which scientists say came from a “lost planet” destroyed billions of years ago.

Some rare good news in the fight against plastic pollution: Scientists working with a plastic-eating microbe discovered in Japan two years ago accidentally created a mutant enzyme that sounds like an environmentalist's dream, the Guardian reports.

A rare photograph of a burial ceremony for a victim of the Titanic disaster is going up for auction this weekend, 106 years after the ill-fated ocean liner sank in the Atlantic, with more than 1,500 of its 2,224 passengers perishing.

Two separate shark attacks on surfers over the last two days forced the World Surf League to cancel one of its major competitions in Western Australia, the organization announced Tuesday.

A mysterious "half-human, half animal" creature has been caught on camera after it was said to have savaged two dogs.

Here's a brainteaser: Do the 520-million-year-old fossils of an ancient, bug-like creature actually show a silhouette of its brains?

Massive swarms of over 1,000 basking sharks spotted off the northeastern U.S. are puzzling scientists.

Massive swarms of over 1,000 basking sharks spotted off the northeastern U.S. are puzzling scientists.

A photographer in California searching for a blue whale came across a pod of killer whales instead.

Some rare good news in the fight against plastic pollution: Scientists working with a plastic-eating microbe discovered in Japan two years ago accidentally created a mutant enzyme that sounds like an environmentalist's dream, the Guardian reports.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The United States is getting serious about space junk, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

From anyone else, it would sound ridiculous: Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with … wait for it … a "giant party balloon."