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Four elephants, including a young calf, were killed by a train in India on Monday.

More than 95 percent of the world’s population is breathing polluted, unsafe air and the hardest hit areas are in Africa and Asia, a major study of global air pollution has found.

Scientists are raising alarm bells after two studies found that the Gulf Stream—an ocean current key to regulating Earth's climate—is the weakest it's been in 1,600 years, the Guardian reports.

A group of baboons that escaped a Texas research facility over the weekend propped up a barrel near a wall, climbed it and then fled their open-air enclosure, officials said Monday.

It had the boring and bureaucratic name of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department.

Satellites circling Earth have mapped an elusive, invisible force in unprecedented detail: the magnetic field created by the currents in the planet's salty oceans, according to new research.

Freak floods drown buildings, bone-chilling air flash-freezes pedestrians and ice encases the Statue of Liberty.

From above, Greenland's ice sheet looks like a vast field of brilliant white — for the most part.

Thousands of fascinating new worlds have been discovered beyond our own solar system, ranging from supersize gas giant planets to small rocky bodies — and the search continues to better understand these distant worlds.

STANFORD, Calif. — Venus shouldn't be dismissed as a possible abode for life, some scientists stress.

An asteroid the size of a football field buzzed by Earth Sunday in one of the closest encounters the planet has seen in a while.

A group of tourists from Illinois wrestled with a 10-foot shortfin mako shark for more than hour before dragging the creature into their boat.

Stargazers are going to appreciate these April showers.

A football-sized asteroid – labeled 2018 GE3 – buzzed by Earth Sunday in one of the closest encounters we've seen in awhile.

An alligator was caught checking out rooms at a Quality Inn hotel in Sebring, Florida, over the weekend.

Cheating is apparently as old as time itself, if the discovery of a mysterious 600-year-old dodgy dice is anything to go by.

An incredible trove of silver treasure linked to the era of a famous Viking king has been discovered on an island in the Baltic Sea.

Diverse disks of dusty material have been spotted around nearby young stars, suggesting new planets are sprouting up around the alien stars.

Giant plasma "tornadoes" raging across the surface of the sun don't actually spin like astronomers once thought, new research shows.

On Monday, April 16, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.