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Three boys unearthed a fossil that could be nearly 100,000 years old all while playing near their backyard in a plowed area.

Scientists are trumpeting a globally important find with the discovery of dozens of rare giant dinosaur footprints in Scotland from 170 million years ago.

A sperm whale sighting on Saturday has the attention of scientists in Washington state, who say it's the first time the creature has made its way into inland waters.

A team of researchers said they discovered the farthest star ever seen in an image provided, in part, by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a study published in Nature Astronomy.

The FBI has cracked its oldest case after successfully extracting DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy’s head, answering a centuries-old question to whom exactly it belonged.

When it comes to this ancient monitor lizard, the nickname "four eyes" is all too accurate.

SpaceX launched its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station Monday, sending a reused cargo ship to the orbiting lab.

A paper published last week takes a look at the second rock from the Sun -- Venus -- as well as its atmosphere.

SpaceX is set to launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station Monday.

A monkey in India’s eastern state of Odisha is being hunted by police after it allegedly snatched a baby. The baby’s body was later found inside a well, the BBC reports.

A massive World War II shipwreck has been raised from the bottom of a harbor in Sri Lanka 75 years after the vessel was sunk following an attack by Japanese forces.

A defunct Chinese space lab has re-entered Earth's atmosphere and mostly burned up, authorities in Beijing said late Sunday.

A 25-year-old paddleboarder was hospitalized in critical condition with multiple wounds after getting bitten by a shark Saturday morning near one of Hawaii's exclusive, white-sand resort areas.

China’s out-of-control, defunct space station is hurtling toward Earth and currently expected to enter the atmosphere sometime in the next 24 hours.

A Florida man thought there was an “intruder” in his backyard pool on Friday — but found out the “suspect” was an 11-foot alligator.

No, this isn't a joke. China's runaway space lab, Tiangong-1, is set to fall to Earth sometime from now through Sunday, April Fool's Day.

Famed British scientist Stephen Hawking was laid to rest Saturday during a private funeral in Cambridge attended by some 500 people.

Stargazers, get your binoculars ready: a blue moon will grace the night's sky this weekend, and the show is expected to be spectacular.

Part of a centuries-old old sailing ship washed ashore on Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida overnight Tuesday, local officials said.

An interstellar object that whizzed through our solar system last year is confounding astronomers trying to understand how planets, comets and asteroids form.