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A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch.

If humanity does indeed have a close encounter of the third kind, it is likely to be more of an ET-style "be good" experience than feel like it's "game over."

Researchers are set to discuss their efforts to determine whether human bones recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck are those of the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.

Fishermen off the coast of Holland made a startling discovery when they hauled in a skull fragment belonging to the “oldest Dutchman.”

"If you're under 40 reading this article, you're probably not going to die unless you get a nasty disease."

Elon Musk's space car is headed for a hell of a crash a few million years down the road, a new study suggests.

A rare meteorite that plowed through the Arizona desert nearly 50,000 years ago sold for a staggering $237,500 during an online auction.

Scientists have discovered nearly 100 new 'exoplanets' in the search for Earth-like planets that could support life.

The human race has come a very long way in a short amount of time, but what is coming around the corner will change everything we thought we knew about mankind.

A million-years-old rock is flying home.

A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth early Thursday after the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare — a burst of high-energy radiation — over the weekend.

A species of African ant lives a life so fierce that it's become expert at wartime triage.

A species of African ant lives a life so fierce that it's become expert at wartime triage.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured gorgeous views of a total solar eclipse on Sunday (Feb.

The origins of intense flickering displays of light high up in Earth's atmosphere are now revealed after a decades-long hunt, a new study finds.

Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered mysterious 8,000-year-old skulls mounted on wooden stakes that shed new light on grisly Stone Age rituals.

The "Boogie Man Nebula" haunts the cosmos in this deep-space image by astrophotographer Jeff Johnson.

Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered mysterious 8,000-year-old skulls mounted on wooden stakes that shed new light on grisly Stone Age rituals.

A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth early Thursday after the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare — a burst of high-energy radiation — over the weekend.

Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have detonated a large wartime device that was recently discovered in the River Thames.