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Artist Paul Gauguin was a little more than a year old when his parents left Paris bound for Peru.

A pair of lilac panties, trimmed in lace and ribbon, sold at auction this week for about $3,600—and they're used.

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the only American off the planet, has voted in the presidential election from the International Space Station.

It's a scary scenario: an asteroid headed for Earth, just four years away from slamming into our home planet.

Joe Tanner was paddling on his surfboard off the Oregon coast, waiting to catch a wave, when he felt something grab his leg

Working about 28 miles from ISIS-controlled territory in Iraq, researchers have discovered evidence of a large Bronze-age city that dates approximately to the year 3,000 BC.

Inside the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research a few miles outside the city, in an unassuming building that smells like cleaning supplies, is the Frozen Zoo.

Canadian waters have yielded their second strange case of the week: The CBC reports that the Royal Canadian Navy is on its way to investigate a possible "lost nuke" believed to have been dumped off the coast of British Columbia before an American B-36 bomber crashed in 1950.

The first color images of a European Mars lander's crash site are revealing new details about the spacecraft's unsuccessful touchdown attempt last month.

You can now toast to the Iron Age with a 2,500-year-old brew

November might be known as a dreary month when we set back the clocks, but it will also feature a special full moon, and it’s coming up soon.

Something appears to be making a mysterious "pinging" noise on the sea floor of the Canadian Arctic.

In medieval times, pilgrims flocked to England in quest of St. Anne's Well, which was said to cure ailments and wash away sins.

Scientists at the Russian Arctic National Park have unearthed the remains of a secret Nazi base on the remote island of Alexandra Land that was abandoned during the latter stages of World War II.

The giant, spike-toothed salmon measured as long as 9 feet.

New research that has identified the oldest chicken bones in Africa is shedding light on the humble chicken’s deep history.

A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-size object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars.

New research out of Australia has pushed back the date of human settlement in the arid part of the continent to 49,000 years ago— and not only that, the archaeological site in question was reportedly discovered because of a bathroom break.

The Los Angeles Basin has the reputation of being a dangerous place when it comes to earthquakes, but a new study suggests that reputation might be overstated.