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Researchers in Massachusetts are hopeful they'll finally be able to free an endangered North Atlantic right whale named who has had a fishing line wrapped around her jaw for several years.

Never has the idiom "one's eyes are bigger than one's stomach" been more true than for this greedy King cobra snake.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Look up at the sky tonight. Every star you see — plus hundreds of thousands, even millions more — will come under the intense stare of NASA's newest planet hunter.

The nearest exoplanet to Earth may get hit hard by damaging ultraviolet radiation, making it tough for life to survive there, a new study suggests.

An extraordinarily rare copy of a lunch menu from the RMS Titanic is going up for auction later this month. The menu, one of just two known to man, offers a rare insight into the lunch served to those on the ship.

While striking in both appearance and ability, the Mary river turtle may not be the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, but it is now one of the most endangered species on the planet.

NASA has tapped Jim Green to be its next chief scientist, agency officials announced today (April 10).

A group of fisherman searching for clams and quahog off the coast of Massachusetts instead came across a unexploded military shell, police said.

Jockey Masayuki Abe was rounding the corner on his horse at Cannon Park Racecourse in Cairns, Australia, around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday when he spotted what looked like a "big crack on the ground."

The names of four deadly hurricanes that caused significant amounts of damage to the United States and Caribbean last year are being retired, officials announced Thursday.

A 3,000-year old bronze vessel that was looted by a British soldier from a palace in Beijing fetched $581,600 at auction this week.

An ambitious mission to a "world made of metal" will help scientists better understand how Earth and other rocky planets evolved, according to a new video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The start to the end of the world is coming, according to doomsday writer David Meade.

WARNING: IMAGES BELOW MAY BE GRAPHIC FOR SOME Authorities on Tuesday seized custody of 87 allegedly mistreated animals on a property in Canton, Texas, where 50 dead horses were also found.

Is The Rapture finally here?

Viewers looking at an optical illusion which made headlines this week may see colors in the image gradually vanish, The Verge reports.

The massive jaw-bone of a 205-million-year-old Ichthyosaur has been discovered, making it "one of the largest animals to ever live," nearly the size of a blue whale.

Emily Brown was standing at her mother’s bedroom window in Waconia, Minnesota when she saw a bald eagle pluck a fish out of a frozen pond.

A massive "hole" on the surface of the sun has unleashed a strong solar wind that scientists say may amp up the northern lights in some areas of the U.S. and could disrupt satellite communications over the next few days.

NASA technicians have officially begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of development on the agency's next Mars rover, keeping the project on track for an expected 2020 launch.