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In 2017, watch for falling space labs.

"Mars Colonial Transporter" seems like a pretty cool name for a spaceship, but it wasn't quite ambitious enough for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.

The White Cliffs of Dover, the steep, chalky cliffs that fringe England's southeastern coastline, formed about 100 million years ago thanks to a "Goldilocks" set of ocean conditions, new research suggests

New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.

Scientists recently traveled thousands of miles below the ocean's surface to explore underwater mountain ranges of cone-shaped dormant and active volcanoes with peaks rising 9,843 feet (3,000 meters) above the seafloor off the coast of Hawaii

Dozens of Israeli children participating in an archaeological project aimed to educate them about their past have uncovered buildings used by fishermen along the Mediterranean coast as much as half a millennium ago.

A 2,100-year-old skeleton has been discovered at the famous Antikythera wreck site.

For more than 50 years, scientists have been gathering foxes from the Russian wilderness and breeding them, picking the most human-friendly to mate to domesticate the supposedly untamable animals, much as dogs once were, Phys.org reports.

California Gov. Jerry Brown kept up his assault on climate change Monday, pushing through a law meant to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from dairy farms and landfills.

A cereal box-size satellite, fueled by water power, is in the running for the first tiny satellite to orbit the moon.

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice-- or so the expression goes-- but sometimes it does something amazing enough to break a record.

It was snowing on Feb. 24, 1944, when Jewish children in the French town of Gemeaux were rounded up at their school.

A time capsule buried by Nazis has finally revealed its secrets, and the items inside are said to be in great condition.

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice-- or so the expression goes-- but sometimes it does something amazing enough to break a record.

The last-ever maneuver of the Rosetta spacecraft on Sept. 30 will take it toward several active pits on the "head" of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

The National Park Service and the nonprofit that runs Washington's Mount Vernon estate are concluding that the rumors were true: In separate exhibits, they show that the first family's family tree has been biracial from its earliest branches.

The full moon known as this year's Harvest Moon will rise on Friday night.

It's long been known Vincent van Gogh had issues: He sliced off his ear during an 1888 breakdown, which was followed by his apparent suicide in 1890.

An ancient textile fragment discovered in Peru represents the oldest piece of indigo-dyed fabric in existence.

In a spot in South America known for its powerful winds, scientists and engineers are gearing up to attempt a record-breaking feat: to fly a human-carrying glider to the edge of space.