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A new solar-sailing spacecraft will be a call to all (future) occupants of interplanetary craft.

Kyle Morningstar was fishing with his friends off Ponce Inlet on the east coast of Florida on a sunny Saturday afternoon when he spotted a dark shadow in the water slowly approaching his boat.

A rare ancient artifact depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut has surfaced in the U.K., stunning experts.

It may be called The Boring Company, but Elon Musk's infrastructure plans are anything but "boring."

Authorities in Southern California had to tranquilize a mountain lion after it was found roaming through backyards on Monday morning.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast, a reproductive drought unseen for three decades that experts say brings the rare species a perilous step closer to extinction.

King Tutankhamun may have been a boy soldier, new research claims, challenging the theory that the king was a weak and sickly youth before his mysterious death at around 18 years of age.

China's Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.

It may be called The Boring Company, but Elon Musk's infrastructure plans are anything but "boring."

A subantarctic archipelago is making "huge news": The New Zealand Herald reports there are officially no more mice on the country's Antipodes Islands, which once housed up to 200,000 of the rodents.

A self-taught rocket scientist who believes the Earth is flat and wants to run for California governor shot himself up about 1,875 feet in the air in his homemade rocket on Saturday.

Mount Etna - Europe's tallest active volcano - is sliding toward the sea which could have "devastating consequences", scientists have warned.

A bizarre orange and yellow snow phenomenon has been reported at ski resorts in Russia and a few other countries, with tourists posting photos of slopes that look like a science fiction film.

A space station launched by China – which it reportedly lost track of – is expected plummet to Earth on or near April Fool’s Day.

At first, people thought it was part of an act: a deadly python coiled around the neck of its owner and snake charmer during a live show in Uttar Pradesh, India, this week.

Utah, Ohio, and Canada might soon be dotted with palm trees—because welcome to climate change.

Archaeologists in Alexandria, Va., have uncovered the remains of two ships that likely date back to the late 1700s or 1800s during construction work on the city’s waterfront.

A tiny, pointy-headed skeleton that fits in the palm of a hand isn't an alien, despite conspiracy theories that have circulated for years.

A group of citizen scientists helped to discover a new type of aurora they named "Steve," and now NASA wants your help photographing the unusual phenomenon.

California residents, brace yourselves: an atmospheric river could continue to bring rain to multiple parts of the state this week.