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This year saw the worst mass die-off of coral ever recorded at the Great Barrier Reef, with the "most-pristine" parts of the reef being hit the hardest, the Guardian reports.

A mysterious 3,000-year-old gold torc, described as one of the largest ever discovered, has been unearthed in the U.K.

New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.

"Alpha Centauri" is getting the boot. The longstanding star name has been displaced by its ancient counterpart in a new International Astronomical Union (IAU) catalog that designates 227 official names for different stars in the sky.

There are multiple timelines playing out in parallel universes, according to a team of researchers.

A man identifying himself as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient jet, jumped from the airliner with $200,000 in ransom money and a parachute, and seemingly disappeared in 1971 in what Fox 13 calls "one of the most enduring FBI mysteries"—one a magazine hopes to solve.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient ‘city’ and cemetery once used by officials tasked with building royal tombs.

While the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Saturn’s rings may have been forming in space.

A bubbling flood of molasses that sent a towering wave of goo down the streets of Boston in 1919, catching everything from horses to humans in its sticky grasp, killing 21 people, injuring 150 more and flattening buildings in its wake.

If the emergence of agrarian practices is seen as a mark of intelligence in humans, then ants can boast some serious smarts.

In the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in 1986, which resulted in radiation that ultimately reached as far as Japan and the US, the Soviet Union slapped together a massive sarcophagus of metal and concrete as hastily as possible to contain further fallout at the site of reactor 4.

Archaeologists in Trondheim, Norway have unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint.

A skating rink with thousands of dead fish frozen underneath the ice has been forced to close its doors after causing outrage among its customers.

The discovery of a pair of fossilized skulls from dome-headed dinosaurs is shedding light on how these bizarre creatures called pachycephalosaurs evolved, researchers say.

The forests of Ethiopia are teeming with a supercharged ant that is poised to invade the globe, new research suggests

A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior does here on Earth, a new study reports.

Archaeologists in Trondheim, Norway have unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint.

The Netherlands' Bubb Kuyper auction house expected the eight-line poem on a piece of old paper to sell for thousands.

All that's left of the dodo bird is a smattering of bones—a nearly complete set of which has just sold for $431,000 at auction.

Pooping in space "isn't glamorous, but it is necessary for survival," an astronaut explains—yet it's presenting quite a challenge for NASA.