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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter Monday (Feb. 12) to share some new details on last week's Falcon Heavy test flight, including why the massive rocket's core booster crashed. SpaceX is also building a new drone ship for rocket landings at sea, he added.

A bull was captured Wednesday morning after it got loose in a Las Vegas neighborhood.

A strand of white hair tucked into a shabby almanac on the shelf of a college library in upstate New York has been revealed to be from one the nation's Founding Fathers.

The Trump administration's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal for NASA includes full funding for an experimental supersonic airplane that could one day transport commercial-airline passengers faster than the speed of sound.

One day, about a billion years ago, Earth's inner core had a growth spurt.

Skates — flat, diamond-shaped fish that are related to sharks and rays — incubate their eggs for as much as four years or more, longer than most animals on Earth.

A rare copper arrowhead discovered on a remote Canadian mountain is almost 900 years old, archaeologists have confirmed.

The long-lost wreckage of a purported ‘miniature UFO’ has been discovered at a U.K. museum.

A giant undersea caldera near Japan hosts a lava dome made from 8 trillion gallons of molten rock.

NASA’s Cassini space probe recently discovered what is thought to be the largest body of liquid on Saturn’s Titan moon — and now the space agency wants to go swimming.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows.

The ‘Oumuamua interstellar object hurtling through the solar system has just got more mysterious. Astronomers believe they may know what set it off on its incredible trans-galactic journey.

Finding evidence for life on Mars has been a decades-long ambition for NASA, which has spent billions of dollars to send machines wheeling over, poking and probing the Red Planet.

A huge, trillion-ton iceberg about the size of Delaware broke free from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. As it moved away from its chilly birth mom and into the Weddell Sea, a vast expanse of water saw the light for the first time in up to 120,000 years.

Archaeologists in Holland have found the 6,000-year-old remains of a baby cradled in the arm of the woman believed to be its mother.

The spectacle of the setting sun in late February that transforms a waterfall in Yosemite National Park into a glowing "firefall" may not happen this year due to a worsening drought in California.

What was supposed to be a historical reconstruction project, showing the face of King Tut's biologicial mother Queen Nefertiti for the first time, has turned sour, amid accusations of 'whitewashing.'

Queen Elizabeth II has declared war — on plastic — with a new waste plan put into place across the royal estates.

The ‘Screaming Mummy’ mystery from ancient Egypt has baffled experts for years but the secret behind the horrifying remains has finally been resolved.

If you were to look at this little, funky starfish, there's a chance the well-armed sea creature would look back at you (though it may see a blurry version of you) — with its up to 50 eyes — all attached to the tips of its squishy limbs.