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In March 2016 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a historic 340-day stint on the International Space Station a changed man – his time in orbit had permanently altered part of his DNA.

A Texas state representative came under fire on social media Wednesday over a tweet about famed British physicist Stephen Hawking that some found insensitive.

Get ready for a slice of the action: Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of Pi Day, which pays tribute to the mathematical constant.

Tributes are pouring in for famed physicist Stephen Hawking, who died early on Wednesday. He was 76 years of age.

At the age of 21, famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a fatal, motor neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Scientists have discovered 15 new planets, including a “super-Earth” that may have liquid water on its surface.

In what may be regarded as an astounding coincidence, famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died on Pi Day, March 14, the day each year when scientists and mathematicians celebrate the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand – has died at age 76, a family spokesman said.

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died Wednesday at the age of 76.

Physicist and author Stephen Hawking possessed an uncanny ability to come up with memorable phrases and sayings that summed up his world view.

People flooded social media after news broke Tuesday night that physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most renowned minds, had died at the age of 76.

Reports of a major solar storms that could wreak havoc on Earth this week are wide of the mark, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which has not noted any significant storm-related activity on the Sun.

A group of men fishing off Florida's Atlantic Coast had a close encounter on Monday with a 14-foot great white shark which one called a "humbling experience."

It has been established as scientific fact that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs known as maniraptoran theropods, a group that included Velociraptors and other small carnivorous dinosaurs. Now, new research suggests that the 150-million-year old Archaeopteryx, a link between dinosaurs and modern-day birds was able to fly, but drastically different than any cardinal or blue jay you've ever seen.

A giant fossilized tooth from a massive prehistoric shark has been stolen from a national park in Australia.

Thousands of people reported seeing a string of bright “orbs” flying across the sky. Decades later, they are still the subject of intense speculation.

"Cosmos" host and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently shot down the ideas of anyone who still thinks the Earth is flat.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered a star surrounded by a huge dust structure that stretches about 150 billion miles across.

A monster fish that weighs about 330 pounds and was about 6 ½ feet long was found washed up on the Australian shore Tuesday.

Hagerman, a small town in southwest New Mexico, is currently dealing with a stinky skunk problem.