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About 800 years ago, a teenage soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man.

As Hurricane Irma winds down — and a message from a Florida sheriff – saying that shooting guns at the storm would not turn it aside — brings to mind the question of why we can't control hurricanes.

The upcoming suicide plunge of NASA's Cassini Saturn probe is an act of noble self-sacrifice.

For the first time ever, titanium oxide has been spotted in an exoplanet's skies, a new study reports.

The world’s oldest panda in captivity, Basi, has died Wednesday in China at the age 37 – equivalent to more than 100 years in human life.

Two territorial hippopotamuses foiled a crocodile that tried to wrestle a wildebeest into a water hole, as seen in a dramatic video of the encounter.

While it may not be Jurassic extinction, there is a fight brewing in Nevada over commercial reptile collections.

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Mike Getty, the chief fossil preparator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, passed away Monday after becoming ill working at a new dig.

Archaeologists in Great Britain have uncovered an intricate, 20-foot-long mosaic in the ruins of a Roman villa that are thought to depict the Greek gods Hercules and Cupid and the mythological hero Bellerophon.

After a "goodbye kiss" with Saturn's huge moon Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft should now be on course for its suicide dive into the ringed planet Friday (Sept.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center sustained “a variety of damage” as a result of Hurricane Irma, officials have confirmed.

The soon-to-launch James Webb Space Telescope will turn its powerful eye on two of the solar system's top candidates for hosting alien life: the icy moons Enceladus and Europa, the agency confirmed in a statement this month.

Engineers are battling a 143-ton so-called “fatberg” of diapers, fat and oil that is clogging up a sewer in London.

The White Cliffs of Dover serve as both a stunning photographic subject and as an iconic British symbol of defense during war.

The incredibly well-preserved Viking sword was found by a reindeer hunter on a remote mountain in Southern Norway.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe heads into its final days at the gas giant.

Hurricane warnings and watches have slightly different meanings concerning hurricane conditions.

Members of an uncontacted tribe, said to include women and children, have allegedly been massacred by gold miners in a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon.

Ancient tales of fierce female Vikings fighting alongside men appear to be rooted in truth, according to archaeologists in Sweden.